[TriLUG] OT: American Idol last 5 minutes

[Ben Pitzer]

Most DVRs have the option to record x number of minutes in addition to the
show itself.  It's wise to do this for any type of live TV, just to be
sure.  As for Idol, my wife got robbed just the same as Scott, using our TWC
Scientific Atlanta cable box/DVR.

I always record sporting events longer than the scheduled time to account
for overtime or extra innings situations, or just long running games.  In
fact, that's why the feature was introduced.  Recording any sports event on
most DVRs will prompt you to see if you want to record more than the
scheduled time.  You may have to go in and directly set it on things like
American Idol and whatnot.

-Ben Pitzer

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So if one was to invest in a MythTV box or DVR of some other type -
> How does one avoid such disaster??
>
> me personally, could care less about Idol... but it could happen to
> any show I suppose...
>
> David
> (the winner)
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com>
> wrote:
> > It's one of the latest in reality schlock TeeVee. You're not missing
> > much, it's kinda like twiddling your thumbs for an hour. Makes the hour
> > pass but without the benefit of the excercise your thumbs would get.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Lance A. Brown wrote:
> >> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil said the following on 5/22/2008 8:05 AM:
> >>
> >>> I also got robbed. Right after they opened the envelope ...and said the
> >>> winner is... it got cut off.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It's a conspiracy against everyone with DVRs to get them to sit and
> >> watch the show live so they don't miss the ending.
> >>
> >> --[Lance]
> >>
> >> P.S.  What is American Idol about anyway?  I've never watched it.... :-)
> >>
> >>
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