Is NBC trying to screw with Tivo?

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:31:13PM -0400, Duane Morin wrote:
> I realize that NBC has running their programming at off times (like 
> Friends from 8-8:33pm) which is fine if you want to keep people from 
> switching channels.  But then I notice that Scrubs starts at 8:32??  Well, 
> Tivo's not having any of that.  So it makes me wonder if they did that on 
> purpose.

Yes, they did.

> On a related note, can Tivo be made to end a program early, or start it 
> late?  REcording options for me only show the opposite (end late or start 
> early) which is not what I want.

No, only what you see.

However. You can get Tivo to record manually rather than by program
block: just set a timer for a particular channel, tell it all those
boring VCR details, et voila.

-dsr-