From: novarnoldspam@verizon.com   
      
   Joseph Nebus wrote:   
   > smarterthanaverageMbear  writes:   
   >   
   >   
   >>I've only been looking at this newsgroup for a short time (tho long time   
   >>Conan fan, sufficient credentials?!), so I don't know if anyone has   
   >>mentioned this before. I've had the verizon dvr for about a year now,   
   >>and the only real problem I've had with it is that it often won't record   
   >>Conan or even Leno.   
   >   
   >   
   > 	I haven't had problems, but that's with a DirectTV Tivo, a rather   
   > different system.   
   >   
   > 	Could there be some problem due to the fact Late Night starts at   
   > a freaky time, 12:37, due to the long 11:00 news and the Tonight Show   
   > and Late Show trying to upstage one another in their lengths?  It would   
   > seem objectively that this shouldn't make a difference, but programmers   
   > have their blind spots as anyone else does.  Is there a way to set it to   
   > start recording at 12:35 no matter what?   
   >   
   > 	As for credentials, nah, all you need to post around here is to   
   > be interested in talking about Conan O'Brien.  We don't ask for more.   
   >   
   I had also meant to say thank you to you, Joseph, for posting the   
   highlights b/c that is how I catch up when the dvr doesn't record.  I   
   used to be able to record those the next week in the 3 a.m. time slot   
   but now they have the poker after dark.  Anyway, when I was just   
   trolling and not writing yet, I did see one post where you mentioned any   
   ideas others might have for the reviews.  I would say to post the name   
   of the cross-over song whenever you know it.  I know you sometimes do   
   and sometimes Conan says the name of the song.  I probably recognize   
   about 2/3 to 3/4 of what Max and the band play, but when I "know I know   
   it" but can't quite think of it, it drives me nuts.  Once in a great   
   while the captioner will put it on b/c I'll run it back and try that,   
   but they usually don't.   
      
   I've thought about the 12:37 thing and have tried to see if I could   
   bypass the problem by telling it to start 5 or 10 mins early, but I can   
   only do it in those type increments (just end up with more of Leno).   
   I've also set it to tape Leno for 30 mins extra as the dvr can and does   
   tape two programs simultaneously, but 30 mins is the outer limit and I   
   have to hope it taped Leno that night to even get that.  I can't tell it   
   an exact time to start in terms of putting it in as a timer like I used   
   to do on the vcr.  My best guess is that either nbc doesn't start it at   
   the exact time every night even tho it could be just a matter of seconds   
   and that sometimes that exceeds the "window" Verizon has for starting to   
   record. It does "know" that the show starts at 12:37 when I check the   
   settings.  I don't think it has ever missed recording L&O or another   
   prime time series on NBC, certainly not in a long while.  What I can do,   
   if I am still awake as I am now, is leave it on the channel and before   
   the hour is up go in and if I see it hasn't started recording I can do   
   that manually and it will get the whole show. Still, the whole point for   
   me is to not have to stay up to make my dvr work right b/c I really like   
   to watch Conan with my morning coffee!!   
      
   However, thanks for the ideas.  Maybe the local news has more control on   
   over-runs in post prime-time than they do earlier in the evening.  I'll   
   see if they will answer that question.   
      
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