Once upon a time sanr shaped the electrons to say... > When I selected the pre-recorded program from Now Playing, the > first 20 minutes or so were a recording of a program that I did NOT > select to record. Then after the 20 minutes, the movie I DID have > set to tape started playing but did not record in it's entirety.
Ah - sounds like the channel was running 20 minutes late. I bet this was something that aired after a sporting event, or some other live event (like a Presidential address, etc) that ran long. Networks will often simply bump their entire schedule to allow a live event to run long. Since this happens at the last minute, DVRs don't know about this so they record at the time the guide data says to record. This happens all the time and is one of the common complaints about DVRs, but it is really no worse than a VCR or any other recording device. There isn't a way for the device to know about last minute shifts, so they can't compensate. What some people do is record entire blocks of programming after a sporting even to make sure they catch the show they want. But this isn't a good solution of there are other programs on other channels that you also want to record. > If the channel was'nt keeping to their published schedule, will the > pre-recorded program be cut off that same amount of time that the > other overlapping program took up? Yep. If the guide data says something is supposed to air from 20:00 to 22:00, but say a football game that was supposed to run from 16:00 to 20:00 runs twenty minutes long, to 20:20, the network will probably run the movie from 20:20 to 22:20. But the TiVo can't know that, so it records from 20:00 to 22:00 - capturing the last 20 minutes of whatever was on before the movie, and missing the last 20 minutes of the movie. > Also, sometimes a precorded program will end playing when the Status > Bar is in the center. So when I record another program, that's where > it begins, with the SB in the center. If something did interrupt the > recording process and leaves the SB in the middle, how do you get > the SB back to the start position for the next time? I don't think I understand the question... -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.TiVoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
