On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > My daughter (some here may recall she is spending 6 weeks in London this > summer) traveled down to Cardiff today because she had tickets to > Brazil-Egypt (which turned out to be a pretty interesting match). Because > of this I set my DVR to record it last night - and found that MSNBC was not > breaking up its listing of Olympic coverage into anything like recordable > bites, but instead listed it in something like a 10 hour block. I had to go > in and make a manual recording - first going to the website to figure out > what time the particular match I was interested in was going to be on. I > see MSNBC is doing the same thing this evening, listing Olympic Coverage > from 3pm to 2am (PT). > > Being forced to make one manual recording is hardly a tragedy, but if this > is how all of the coverage is going to be listed across the family of > networks, it is going to make it much less convenient to record non-prime > time, non NBC events over the next two weeks. Unless you have a very narrow > tennis, or boxing or maybe soccer or basketball fetish, you are likely (at > least, I am likely) to want to record 1 event on one channel, then another > on another and a third on another. I don't have enough DVR memory to just > record these large blocks, nor would I really want to even if I did, since > I would have to spend so much time FF to find the event I wanted to watch. > > Is there some technical reason why NBC is doing it this way, or is it > possible they really do want to discourage time-shifting as a way of > protecting their primetime coverage? >
I am going to assume someone from NBC is monitoring our list. I see in the Comcast listings starting early Sunday morning (1:30 am) that the Olympic listings across the entire family are now for blocks of manageable length (2 to 3.5 hours), and contain rough descriptions of at least the main events scheduled during each block. This is a much better, and more reasonable, approach to what they did for the first day, and is much appreciated by me. -- 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
