Well done, Steve.  Thanks for standing up for us.  
 
Have you joined the Curmudgeon Guild?   

Jeff Evans
 
I have got a whiz bang recorder thingy too and after doing some research I found out on mine anyway you can extend the shut off times by editing. Use the guide to make the selection but then go in and edit end times. You will find you can in most cases, it is just not obvious that is all. The only issue with mine is that if I do edit the end time the program ends up with no name instead of its correct name. No biggie as you can edit that after the event too.

Hi Jeff
 
My digital recorder has a similar (and extremely useful) feature built in.
 
It can be set up to automatically start recording either 1, 2, 5, 10 or 15 minutes before a scheduled recording is meant to start. The same time options are also available to continue the recording after the programme is scheduled to finish.
 
I have mine set up permanently to start 5 minutes before the start and finish 10 minutes after the end, so I usually don't miss anything unless they reschedule anything or transmit it later because a sporting event over-runs. This works particularly well if a programme does actually start on time as I have the skip forward feature set to 5 minutes intervals.
 
I deliberately didn't mention this to the BBC because it might have made it look like I was just moaning for the sake of it
 
Mind you, I'm pretty sure that a few years ago, the broadcasters used to transmit a code at the instant a programme started to ensure any video recorders would start recording at the correct time, should a transmission start before or after the programmed time. It would also ensure a recording would continue until the programme actually ended if it over-ran for some reason.
 
I've got a sneaking susp1cion that the same technology enabled a recording to be automatically paused during ad breaks, but the TV companies, under pressure from advertisers fearing their money would be wasted, decided not to implement the feature.
 
At least we don't have the problem with 'paid-for' ads with the BBC, although they do seem to be able to cram endless trailers and other guff into the ever-widening gaps between programmes.
 
 

mike_mccue
Are you using Greenwich or USNO Master Clock for your reference?

I use SONAR as the master...
 
And we are all its slaves.
 
Profound stuff there from Straumfucius.
 
 

bapu
Crash Test Dummies were once my fav group. I loved the first two albums. Especially the first.
 
My (then, now ex-)wife and I ran into them in the Chicago airport a few months after the 2nd CD came out. I did not want to bother them but she took their 2nd CD and had them sign it for me. I still have it. IIRC one of the members was not there (in the loo?) so it's not a complete autographed copy.

what has this to do with programmes? and time? and British humour?

drewfx1
 
Oh, and this thread started too early so I missed the beginning. 

 
 

wood this solve your problems??
 

musicman100
wood this solve your problems??
 

If it ain't edible, it solves NOTHING!!!!

bapu

musicman100
wood this solve your problems??
 

If it ain't edible, it solves NOTHING!!!!

 
JUST FOR EWE

It's a good thing those two prougrammmes weren't reversed.  If you miss the first minute of the Crash Test Dummies documentary, you're lost.  You're doomed to spend the rest of the episode in complete and total confusion.  In addition, you keep asking if they've shown the bit with Bapu.
 
Fortunately, missing the first minute of the news only means that you missed three murders, and/or a pile up on the M4.

I recently had plumbed the depths of...............nevermind, the Royal Flush was on Pay-per-View and not on the BBC.