I long for the days when shows started and ended at exact times. Is there any show on Discovery, Food Network or The Learning Channel that doesn't run 15 seconds over the minute?
Also missed: ads between shows. Without those, I have to record all of tonight's NBC sitcoms in a two-hour block (actually 2.5, to catch the last minute of "30 Rock") so the end-credit gags don't fall into the gaps between DVR slots. On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:49 AM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Eh. The DVR owners finally won the battle with the networks about those 1 or > 2 minute differences in running times being unadvertised, but it's still not > perfect. I find that, fairly often, network scheduling at odd times rounds > the start of the program down to the nearest minute and I wind up with a few > seconds of credits of the previous show at the start of my recording (which > is preferable to having the start cut off, I'll admit) or a few seconds of > credits cut off at the end. I've ended up padding my recordings for an extra > minute (one of the few good things about Time-Warner's Navigator system) > when I'm interested in the preview for the next week and the show runs an > odd length. > > PAL and its digital replacement have a program ID code embedded in the > signal so that guides can accurately display what's on at the moment and > recorders can start/stop the instant the program changes. I've heard that > ATSC has this ability as well, but none of the American broadcasters use it. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
