[mythtv-users] Inconsistent show times in australia

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:23 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote:
> --- On Tue, 4/8/09, Bob Long <bob at oblong.com.au> wrote:
> > From: Bob Long <bob at oblong.com.au>
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Inconsistent show times in australia
> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > Received: Tuesday, 4 August, 2009, 10:31 PM
> > Tom Sparks wrote:
> > > How do yous deal with the inconsistent show times in
> > Australia?
> > > 
> > > show that start early, show that start late and show
> > that run over time
> > 
> > Generally I start 5 minutes early and finish 20 minutes
> > late. Mostly that's overkill, but sometimes even 20 minutes
> > is not sufficient!
> > 
> 
> that what I have been doing :(
> I can only hope that the broadcasters well improve their game with
> these newer PVR and freeview or the EPG well be useless

I doubt it.  IMHO they don't want you to record to HD, because it means
you can FF the ads (or worse, remove them!)  Of course they could catch
up time lost in live shows by shortening ad breaks, but then they
promise all their customers a certain amount of screening time.

The EPG in Australia is also extremely bad.  Most of the time, all I get
for a show (eg CSI) is Title: CSI, Description: CSI.  woohoo.  When
Austar broadcast commercial TV over cable the EPG was much better.  Now
of course it's satellite so I have to go back to the DTV EPG.

Sorry, I'll stop now...
</rant> 

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