On Mar 30, 5:10 am, JW <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a strong feeling NBC took a step to not alienate their TiVo
> > viewers. They never mentioned TiVo or DVR, but they did announce
> > early, and then repeat often, that the tournament had been delayed a
> > couple of hours, and that they would be staying on their air until the
> > end of daylight in Florida. I had already padded the ending by an
> > hour, but after the second repetition I took what Dan Hicks was saying
> > essentially as the following warning: "if you are recording this, you
> > better make sure you extend it till at least 8:00 Eastern TIme or you
> > will miss the end". By then I was lagging real time by about 90
> > minutes. I went back and extended till 5:00 pm Pacific Time. And boy
> > was I glad that I did...
>
> 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.
>
> I assume I missed a tag on Family Guy because I only set it to record
> until 9:30, but that's my fault. Missing content because of
> variable-length sporting events isn't my fault, and I anxiously await
> the technology that will solve that problem.
At some point I subscribed to some CBS alert service because I get a
text message on my mobile phone whenever sports causes the Sunday
evening lineup off the standard schedule. Don't know why I get that,
but it's helpful sometimes.
-stan
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