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Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo
Yahoo is running a bit about Networks messing with PVRs by adding a minute to shows. If a show runs to 9:01, then you can't Tivo a show on another channel that starts at 9. I've noticed this, although it's less of a factor if you have a dual tuner tivo, but it's interesting to see a bit of mainstream coverage.
That explains why the shows have been getting onto BitTorrent a minute or two later.
Trolling is a art,
Not an issue if you only watch one channel.
Oh look, it's Colonel Carter in a slick leather outfit!
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
Nope, just you everyone else here has found religion and are all Linux zealots....
Why don't they just go ahead and send a high voltage spike down the cable line, that would "fix" the Tivo.
The History Channel keeps you watching by removing the commerical break between the ending credits of one show, and the opening teaser of another show, so you get roped right into the next show.
While that might cause some time conflicts because the padding from the commercial break isn't there to cut some slack, it is a lot better than this early starting crap.
When we first got a TiVo they were doing something like this, but it wasn't on purpose. My housemate was considering starting a mail-in campaign where we sent all the TV stations a cheap plastic digital watch, so they could keep time.
Someone had to do it.
News at 10:59
ObOnion reference: "Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television."
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
So, yes, it's interesting to see this acknowledged, but the tactic does show up in the guides (e.g., ER starting at 8:59PM CT), and for multi-tuner PVRs it is not at all an issue.
Obviously this is not a nefarious plot to thwart TiVo owners, as advertised, but rather, a plot to sell more TiVos!
KFG
If you are "kept" at one channel for 5 minutes longer, you are going to miss the beginnings of the "hooker" beginner part of shows on other channels.
Except on Fox, where most of the show is the "hooker" part.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Jesus fucking Christ what the hell is wrong with these shitheads? What next? Is everything these retards do designed to alienate and piss off their own customers? First we can't record what we want when we want to soon we won't be able to zap the commercials on our own machines. It's bad enough that there is steadily less and less actualy content - what, about 18 minutes per half hour once you strip out the commericials the jingle, the credits? It's not bad enough there's a gigantic animated bug in the lower right corner of the screen and crawl across the bottom. Now they want to make sure that I don't watch the beginning and/or the end of any show?
What next? Super premium extra fee channels that compress everything into recordable timeslots?
I want them dead, I want them all dead. I want their women raped their children enslaved their houses fucking burned to the ground.
If you're going to that much trouble to make sure you don't miss any TV, you MUST be married.
I call them, respectively, "tissues", "green scrubbies", and "keep that damn thing away from my pans".
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
I would also choose to remain Anonymous if I admitted to watching Saved By The Bell.
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DON'T USE TUNAREZ!!!
I always try to do #2 before the show starts since now that I have a PVR there are no commercial breaks for me to get up to do it later.
Ascalante: Your bride is over 3,000 years old.
Kull: She told me she was 19!
Step One: Turn on your TV.
Step Two: Holding the power button on your TiVo, unplug it from the wall.
Step Three: Holding the power button on your TV, unplug it from the wall.
Step Four: Stand in front of the television and then look to the side. Imagine your gaze has an infinite range which follows the curvature of Earth. Think about how right now your life, and the lives of 6.5 billion people, are ticking away one second at a time. Imagine that what you do with your temporary gift of consciousness actually matters.
Step Five: Welcome back to reality.
Hollywood, Television, has become the dream machine. We need to take that back; each of us is a Dream Machine
Hey, you can't karma-whore to the SbtB fanbois if you post anonymously!
I just moved here about 3 years ago. I'm a practicing Southern Baptist, and this town is about 96% Catholic and Lutheran. Trust me - atheism wouldn't be more eyebrow-raising than that. However, you darn well better like to eat meet. Nebraskans can overlook religious differences, but vegetarianism? That's asking too much. ;-)
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?