Quote Originally Posted by 85turbo View Post
so your saying that TiVo will have access to live timing on all shows ? i don't see that happening any time soon.
too Labor intensive. and if they did have this service, i wouldn't trust it.
There are quite a number of TiVo's already running with the new system on 7/7HD/7TWO and 9/9HD/GO!, and default padding on these has been dropped from 10 minutes to only 1 minute.

Results are fairly good so far, not perfect but pretty good.

Only time will tell if it is better than what we currently have. But having only 1 minute cut from the start of show for clipping is a better option then the current 10 minutes on most channels.

Quote Originally Posted by 85turbo View Post
what happens if a show starts on time, but for some reason ends late ?
e.g. an unscheduled news bulletin in the middle, can they actually adjust a recording while it's going in order to extend it ?
You will not get the end if you are only recording the scheduled times, but this is the same for any device.

Quote Originally Posted by 85turbo View Post
the tivo should be able to recognise that im recording two shows back to back on one ch, and use one tuner to record both shows.
or at least offer that as a solution on a per recording basis. (ie it should ask if i want to use one tuner or two).
surely that shouldn't be too hard to do in the next software update.
You can do that now on a show by show or season pass basis, by just changing the first show from extend to finish on time.

Quote Originally Posted by 85turbo View Post
until the TV stations are held accountable for running late / early there will be no simple solution, but to manually extend recordings.

i have emailed TiVo about the issue.
This is the real problem, and you would probably be better off emailing the stations to keep to their published schedules rather than emailing TiVo about things that it really cannot solve for all situations.

The solution I use to this problem is to have more than one TiVo, so you virtually never have to choose between shows or what gets padded and what doesn't. The multiroom feature works well allowing you to watch content from any TiVo on any other TiVo.

Peter.