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

[Michael Heironimus]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:25:36PM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> David Brodbeck wrote:
> > MythTV assumes you want the whole show, not part of it.  So if it  
> > sees overlap, it's going to try to reschedule the later recording for  
> > another time.  If it can't, you'll get a conflict.
> > 
> > To give a more obvious case:  If I have a show on one channel that  
> > runs from 10:00 to 11:00, and I have a show on another channel that  
> > runs from 10:00 to 10:30, I obviously don't want Myth to record one  
> > show from 10:00 to 10:30, then record only the last half of other one.
> 
> Hmmm... If this becomes common practice, should there be a setting for 
> allowable overlap?
> 
> (My cynical mind is telling me this could be the networks' way to mess 
> up recording popular shows....)
> 
> Say, 3 minutes or 5 minutes or whatever?
> 
> That way you could say, start recording at 10:00 to 10:05, which would 
> allow this sort of overlap.

I've found it far more common for shows to just start / end at the wrong
time with no guide listing saying it will happen.

-- 
Michael Heironimus