Sports and Post-Padding

[jghanisco]

Sporting Event (A) is scheduled to end at 6pm, but is set up to have 89 minutes of post-padding. Recurring Recording (B) is scheduled to start at 6pm. Of course nPVR notes recording B wanting to start, so ignores the post-padding. I, naturally, want to watch the extra innings / overtime / end of event A. I currently have to go into nPVR the morning of event (A), and cancel event (B), so that the post-padding is honored. That's a bit of a pain in the butt to remember every morning, especially with the Tour de France running in the morning.

Does anybody have an alternative to where the post-padding could take precedent, or some other way around this??? I'm in Canada, so other than adding additional HD PVR devices (already have 2), I'm stuck with those 2 devices. OTA helps a bit with Toronto network shows, but with nPVR turning into a full household recorder, instead of being my personal baby, I still run into issues here and there.

Thanks,
Joe

[sub]

You can schedule a manual recording - this let you specify an explicit start and end time of your choosing, instead of having to rely on padding.

[ElihuRozen]

I always record whatever is the next show on the channel showing A. That way, if it runs long, I have what ran long & if it doesn't run long, I can delete the other show if I don't watch A right away or want to keep A for long term viewing.