Or, you could just wait for them to release it on DVD!
On Mar 30, 10:10 am, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:10 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote:
> > That worked out well for you, but what if you'd just set the TiVo so
> > you could go out, and thus missed Hicks' warnings? And, of course,
> > there's the much-too-standard problem where 60 Minutes was delayed in
> > the east by the NCAAs, which no recording system is designed to
> > handle.
>
> Well, my expectations are fairly low. i would like some kind of
> system that could tell my TiVo to switch recording to CNBC or ESPN2 or
> TBS if the primary channel covering a sporting event changes in mid
> stream, as sometimes happens, or to stay on longer if it goes over,
> but I know that is not happening soon. And if you watch sports enough
> you know to pad the end. But more than a few times I have been
> frustrated in the past when the producers obviously know an event is
> going to run substantially over time, and they don't tell you.
>
> If I had recorded yesterday's golf match without intending to watch it
> the same day I would have put in a 3 hour pad (as I did with the Laker
> game yesterday, since I knew I would not get to it till late last
> night - though now I wish I hadn't). But my normal practice is to just
> get 60 - 90 minutes behind so I can ff through commercials and NBC
> fluff, If I had not had the head's up, I would have got to the end and
> maybe not had time to record from the buffer.
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