On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 11:17 -0700, Chad wrote: > I've got it currently setup to Record, and have it End Late by 60 > minutes.
Sports is most of what I watch on TV, and this is what I do. Because there are tons of ads during sporting events, I find it very useful to start watching the game late, and fast forward through all the ads and other breaks. Some sports, such as baseball and football, lend themselves to using the time stretch as well. With a time stretch of about 1.2 and fast forwarding through all the ads and halftime, I can watch a football game that takes about 3 1/2 hours live in less than 2 hours, without missing anything. Just don't try using time stretch to watch hockey; it's too fast already (but it's still useful to fast forward through ads and period breaks). Of course, the Super Bowl is a little different, because the pagentry of half time is part of what you watch for. This year, the Stones will be playing at half time (yes, I can already hear all the jokes about Mick Jagger needing a walker :-) Also, the ad agencies all tend to launch their new campaigns during the Super Bowl, so many of the ads are at least ones that I haven't seen before (I really don't mind commercials that much, I just get sick of them after I've seen the same ad for the 100th time, and some of them are *really* stupid). The trouble with LiveTV is that you have to be there at the console when the event starts to use that method. Much easier to just set it to record ahead of time. Myth makes that very easy to do; I can get practically all of the Avalanche hockey games by just telling it to record "NHL Hockey" on the "Altitude" channel any time it comes on. It's even smart enough to automatically ignore all the re-showings of games and just record the first one. Setting it to record "NFL Football" any time on any channel automatically caught all the football games for me, but I did have to manually resolve conflicts caused by my "record 30 minutes late" rule overlapping when there were consecutive games on the same channel. I'd love to be able to say, record 30 minutes late *unless* it conflicts with another recording on the same channel, but I haven't found any way to do that yet. Still, this is way better than my Comcast DVR (which is used only because my Myth system isn't HD-capable yet) which has only a very limited "series recording" feature. I pretty much have to set up every game individually there, but since I have Myth, I only bother to do that for games that are broadcast in HD. --Greg _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
