Times, starts, stops -- ACK!

[Josh Assing]

I don't know when it started happening, the paranoid twit inside me says that
it's becuase TiVo wants me to upgrade to S3.....

All shows are starting (and ending) about 6 minutes late...

Is there a way to tell tivo that it needs to adjust it's "real time" by -6
minutes?

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[Josh Assing]

>Clock's set by the daily call -- force a connection. Maybe you got a bad
>time server last time. It's one of those "That's not supposed to happen"
>things, but it sometimes does.

I did that... I can look my wall clock; then my computer, hten my watch "10:06"
and the show I'm watching is still going. I hit "guide" and it, too, shows
"10:06"

Very odd.

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[Josh Assing]

>So your cable/satellite/whatever provider has slewed all the programming
>by six minutes. How is this TiVo trying to get you to buy an S3? It

I guess my tounge-in-cheek comment didn't come across well in text -- I was
joking that it was tivo trying to get me to buy an s3...

>might be the provider trying to get you to buy THEIR DVR, but in any
>case, it seems like an unacceptable quality issue to me, and possibly
>grounds for firing the provider.

Hmm. I'll look into that -- thanks.
In the short term, there's no way to manually adjust the time offset....

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[Mike Hunt]

On 2006-10-15, Josh Assing > wrote:
>>So your cable/satellite/whatever provider has slewed all the programming
>>by six minutes. How is this TiVo trying to get you to buy an S3? It
>
> I guess my tounge-in-cheek comment didn't come across well in text -- I was
> joking that it was tivo trying to get me to buy an s3...

It came across, it was just a bit misdirected.

>>might be the provider trying to get you to buy THEIR DVR, but in any
>>case, it seems like an unacceptable quality issue to me, and possibly
>>grounds for firing the provider.
>
> Hmm. I'll look into that -- thanks.
> In the short term, there's no way to manually adjust the time offset....

Well, from what you've described so far, TiVo is doing the right thing and
you're wanting to find a way to make it do the wrong thing such that it
matches the wrong thing your cable provider is doing. Sadly for you, two
wrongs don't make a right. You could modify all of your season passes to
start and end 6 minutes later but if your cable provider ever started
doing the right thing again, you would have to re-change all of your
season passes.

I suppose if you have a hacked TiVo, you could manually set the time to be
skewed and then set it up to automatically (via cron) get set back to your
bad time after your TiVo calls in for the schedule update (your TiVo clock
will get set to the correct time when it calls in so you would have to
unfix it everytime it calls in). I would hope this is just a short term
problem that your cable provider would fix quickly though.

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[Mark Lloyd]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 11:15:26 -0500, "Peter H. Coffin"
> wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:07:54 -0700, Josh Assing wrote:
>>>So your cable/satellite/whatever provider has slewed all the programming
>>>by six minutes. How is this TiVo trying to get you to buy an S3? It
>>
>> I guess my tounge-in-cheek comment didn't come across well in text -- I was
>> joking that it was tivo trying to get me to buy an s3...
>>
>>>might be the provider trying to get you to buy THEIR DVR, but in any
>>>case, it seems like an unacceptable quality issue to me, and possibly
>>>grounds for firing the provider.
>>
>> Hmm. I'll look into that -- thanks.
>> In the short term, there's no way to manually adjust the time offset....
>
>Nope. On the plus side, you never see a Tivo flashing 12:00.... 12:00...
>12:00....

There's no reason they couldn't provide both automatic and manual
options. Have the unit set the time automatically until (if) the
manual command is given. That would stop the "flashing 12:00" without
the loss of control.
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[Josh Assing]

>> In the short term, there's no way to manually adjust the time offset....
>
>Nope. On the plus side, you never see a Tivo flashing 12:00.... 12:00...
>12:00....

well; you set the offset/timezone -- this is an adjustment.
say -7:00

I was hoping there was a way to say the offset is -6:50 instead


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[Mark Lloyd]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:09:40 -0700, Josh Assing >
wrote:

>>> In the short term, there's no way to manually adjust the time offset....
>>
>>Nope. On the plus side, you never see a Tivo flashing 12:00.... 12:00...
>>12:00....
>
>well; you set the offset/timezone -- this is an adjustment.
>say -7:00
>

If the TV station was nice enough to start everything 60 minutes late,
instead of 6.

>I was hoping there was a way to say the offset is -6:50 instead
>

I get the idea that feature was omitted for the purpose of getting
people dependant on the service.

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I'd rather not even suggest the improper use of email in a response to
a post, and still use an invalid address to stop the offenders.
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