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Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha
No, because there is no concept of "same priority" in TIVO. You have to prioritise your series links in the management screen. That then determines priority of recordings. As I said in my post last night, if the 22.00 show has a higher priority then it will clip lower priority padding. However, your worst case scenario is that the 22.00 show is lower priority than both 21.00 recordings, in which case you will lose the first 5 minutes of the 22.00 show.
The only scenario I'm not sure about is if all 3 recordings are on-offs in which case I'm not sure if they are all equal priority. The logical way to do that is that the later recording gets the priority and clips off padding on the previous. One to test out I guess.
I think we're all in agreement that the V+ system is preferable. It may be that in the US padding is far less important because they have so many damn adverts ! It's only BBC stuff over here that frequently runs over the hour.
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Yes I think you have highlighted the fundamental issue with Tivo right now as you are saying you are forced to set a priority over different individual series recordings, so I have to set a different priority for recording House on Sky 1 and Being Human on BBC3 if on at the same time and then there is something else at 10am I want to record as well. Tivo is trying to be too clever since I want to watch all and if something has to be sacrificed, it will be the padding at the end of the 9am programme, not the start of the programme at 10am! The way around this I guess is always to set the 10pm programme on a higher priority than one of the 9am programmes so that it will force cut off of the padding on the 9am recording, so a work around anyway but have to apply for every back to back recording?
You are right about BBC, ever tried starting a recording and discovering you have just missed the first 2 minutes of the programme because you were forced to give a higher priority to the previous porgramme, very annoying. My wife will throw Tivo through the window if it does much of that!