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Originally Posted by coulsontom
If you think that all channels start and end on time, you're mistaken. Clearly you don't though as you mention BBC. (who have a funny start time for the One show at like 3 minutes to the hour - not that I record that!)
Coronation Street has a very random start time. The 8.30 editions sometimes start at nearly 8.28 but the 7.30 slot is more normal.
You cannot set a series link that has different padding for 2 separate editions
It is a lot of messing around to set padding for each show individually. It's far better to have a default setting.
Sky boxes drop the padding when you have clashes, and the V+HD box also does the same thing.
The TiVo box if it tries to drop the padding it goes too far and cuts off the last 2 mins of the first programme or the first 2 mins of the 2nd programme.
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All I can tell you is my experience; I rarely use padding and don't have problems.
The V+ handled padding way better than Tivo; a point I made several times before VM released Tivo when someone posted how Tivo did handle padding. But it was clear that Tivo would not be adopting the V+ method.
That is why when I got Tivo, I decided to try zero padding as the default and just add padding to the odd show and that method has worked for me.