Gordon Burditt
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Thu Nov 10, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:
Re: Tivo still listening! |
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| Quote: | Get 'em both with Overlap Protection™: In the past, if two of your
favorite shows overlapped by a minute or two, you could only record one
or the other. Now, with Overlap Protection™, your TiVo® box can record
both shows back-to-back by clipping just enough from the end of the
first show or the beginning of the second show, based on which has the
higher Season Pass priority in Season Pass Manager. Wondering how to
manage your Season Pass Manager? Read the next TiVo Tip.
Just "thinking out loud" here. I have a S1, so it's not as though I'll
get to test this myself. :-)
Suppose you have two SPs - A and B. Show A runs over one minute and
Show B repeats its episodes later in the evening.
Currently, Show A records with the extra minute then Show B records the
second airing.
With Overlap Protection, supposedly Show A will record with the extra
minute and Show B will record the first airing minus the first minute.
Yes? If true, then you're actually worse off because you're losing the
beginning of Show B. Unless there's some other option going on here.
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I've often wondered about having a "deferrable" option. (I doubt
TiVo will implement it and I haven't even fully thought out what
it ought to do in corner cases). If Show A and Show B conflict
(by, for this example, much more than one minute) and Show B is
available later, record Show A now and Show B later, even if Show
B has higher priority. Now, if you've got a family member who wants
to watch it right after the first showing of it when they get home,
you wouldn't use this option on that show. In a schedule where
there are often shows on with the same episode shown twice weekly,
but which overlap a lot, this might do a better job of getting
everything but it takes a lot more CPU to calculate the schedule.
The problem is, this risks never getting a recording of Show B if
the schedule changes, say, what episode it is doesn't get updated
until after the first showing happens. Or if the show moves but
the new time appears before the old one disappears. It also may
not work if a later showing of Show B is generic (rather than giving
a specific episode) and doesn't get updated until after the first
showing. Also, which episode is shown seems to be WRONG much more
often than the show being WRONG. Stations and networks don't seem
to care much about getting the episodes right.
Then there's the issue of it deferring recording that show you
wanted to right after a football game, at which point it's not shown
at the right time, and Murphy's law says that was the last showing
for a while.
Gordon L. Burditt
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Charlene Charette
Guest
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Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:13 am Post subject:
Re: Tivo still listening! |
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Howard wrote:
| Quote: | "Randy S." <rswitt@NOSPAM.com> wrote in news:dksp6p$1206s$3
@usenet.osg.ufl.edu:
Just "thinking out loud" here. I have a S1, so it's not as though I'll
get to test this myself. :-)
Suppose you have two SPs - A and B. Show A runs over one minute and
Show B repeats its episodes later in the evening.
Currently, Show A records with the extra minute then Show B records the
second airing.
With Overlap Protection, supposedly Show A will record with the extra
minute and Show B will record the first airing minus the first minute.
Yes? If true, then you're actually worse off because you're losing the
beginning of Show B. Unless there's some other option going on here.
--Charlene
That's a good question, does anyone know the answer to that? I don't
have 7.2.1 yet so I can't even try to test it out.
Go into the ToDo list, scroll down to Show B, and enter that show's
recording options. Look for upcoming episodes. Select the later showing
to be recorded, which will automatically cancel the earlier. Since this is
the way it was recording before, it shouldn't be too much of a hardship.
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Not quite. Currently it records the second showing automagically.
Using your method, while it will work, requires you to change which
episode records each time it airs.
--Charlene
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