Pre / Post Padding question

[mpking]

So I have a show that the Wife and I watch, "The Unit"

Unfortunately, Sunday night football plays havoc with schedule on the channel, and start times can be up to 40 minutes off on shows.

I went to the scheduled recordings screen and updated the recording to PrePad 5 minutes, and post pad 45 minutes. (I'm assuming the interval is minutes)

Last night, my recording of "The Unit" was only 1 hour. Exactly 1 hour. Not 1 hour and 45 minutes like I expected.

What did I do wrong?

Mike

[sub]

Padding is always considered optional, and will only be applied if the tuner is not in use for some other task.

[imagn]

I have the same problem (with the scheduleing) but the way i work around it is i schedule a manual recording for a block of time that i think the show will take place in, accounting for the football overrun. This is usually a large block of time as who know when football will actually end, and if it ends on time i dont want to miss the show either.

Just thought i'd share

[mpking]

Hmm..

That show is the last for the night, and I'm usually only recording 1 show at time on sunday. (It's a 500 MCE, so it's a dual tuner card)