[mythtv-users] Network execs added 1 minute to program length

[Phil Bridges]

On 10/2/07, Taine Gilliam <taing at jtkdev.com> wrote:
> I'd have thought the schedule set for 9:00-10:00 would start immediately
> once the schedule at 8:00-9:01 was complete. Unless the later schedule
> had a higher priority in which case the 8:00-9:01 should be stopped at
> 9:00 to begin the second recording. Even my really cheap VCR can handle
> this one.
>
>
> Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > Rod Smith wrote:
> >> Alternatively, buy another tuner card. Even a card that's not as good as your
> >> main card might be acceptable for this sort of contingency, and you can find
> >> bargains on software encoding and non-Hauppauge MPEG-2 cards on eBay. OTOH,
> >> if you're a satellite TV subscriber this will require you to rent another
> >> receiver box, which will cost more than a new tuner card in the long run.
> >>
> >
> > I'll agree with buying another tuner card.  Before I got additional hidef
> > tuners, i'd be consistently missing the end of the Office when scheduling
> > recordings to other stations and being forced to compensate this.  I've got 3
> > now, and things get along fine no matter what kind of thing the networks pull.
> >
> >

How does your really cheap VCR handle priorities?