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joe.borne at gmail

Aug 6, 2008, 8:19 AM

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Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events?

Hello again all,

I'm a bit of an Olympics nut, but only for certain events (weightlifting,
Taekwondo, fencing, Track & Field). In looking at my listings on my mythbox,
and on the various websites I can't figure out how to record individual
events.

All I can get are 4 to 8 hour blocks that have 7 or 8 different things. Does
anyone know of a way to narrow this down so I don't have to record
everything and just fast forward? I know it's probably impossible to get
just what I want, but I would think they could at least give us a 1 or 2
hour window instead of 8!

Thanks in advance,

Joe

i.adore.my.64 at gmail

Aug 6, 2008, 8:55 AM

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Re: Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events? [In reply to]

2008/8/6 Joe Borne <joe.borne[at]gmail.com>:
> Hello again all,
>
> I'm a bit of an Olympics nut, but only for certain events (weightlifting,
> Taekwondo, fencing, Track & Field). In looking at my listings on my mythbox,
> and on the various websites I can't figure out how to record individual
> events.
>
> All I can get are 4 to 8 hour blocks that have 7 or 8 different things. Does
> anyone know of a way to narrow this down so I don't have to record
> everything and just fast forward? I know it's probably impossible to get
> just what I want, but I would think they could at least give us a 1 or 2
> hour window instead of 8!
>
>
> Thanks in advance,

I think your only option is to find out when your event starts and how
long it is - and then set a manual program.

Cheers.

--
"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
-- Thomas Paine
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ccmail at bellsouth

Aug 6, 2008, 9:48 AM

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Re: Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events? [In reply to]

"Joe Borne" wrote:

> All I can get are 4 to 8 hour blocks that have 7 or 8 different things. Does
> anyone know of a way to narrow this down so I don't have to record
> everything and just fast forward? I know it's probably impossible to get
> just what I want, but I would think they could at least give us a 1 or 2
> hour window instead of 8!

NBC doesn't even know exactly what time they're going to be showing a particular event. They may spend more time on some events and less on others (generally depending on how well the Americans are doing in a particular event). There's no way they could publish a schedule in advance since it's determined in near real-time.

Chuck

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Aug 6, 2008, 11:21 AM

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Re: Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events? [In reply to]

but you can get close to what is scheduled by going to
http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_online_listings/index.html
put in your zip code - choose your NBC station and then you can see what the
schedule is it looks like the minimum time frame is by the 1/2 hour.

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, <ccmail[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:

> "Joe Borne" wrote:
>
> > All I can get are 4 to 8 hour blocks that have 7 or 8 different things.
> Does
> > anyone know of a way to narrow this down so I don't have to record
> > everything and just fast forward? I know it's probably impossible to get
> > just what I want, but I would think they could at least give us a 1 or 2
> > hour window instead of 8!
>
> NBC doesn't even know exactly what time they're going to be showing a
> particular event. They may spend more time on some events and less on
> others (generally depending on how well the Americans are doing in a
> particular event). There's no way they could publish a schedule in advance
> since it's determined in near real-time.
>
> Chuck
>
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nick.rout at gmail

Aug 6, 2008, 10:25 PM

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Re: Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events? [In reply to]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:48 AM, <ccmail[at]bellsouth.net> wrote:
> "Joe Borne" wrote:
>
>> All I can get are 4 to 8 hour blocks that have 7 or 8 different things. Does
>> anyone know of a way to narrow this down so I don't have to record
>> everything and just fast forward? I know it's probably impossible to get
>> just what I want, but I would think they could at least give us a 1 or 2
>> hour window instead of 8!
>
> NBC doesn't even know exactly what time they're going to be showing a particular event. They may spend more time on some events and less on others (generally depending on how well the Americans are doing in a particular event). There's no way they could publish a schedule in advance since it's determined in near real-time.
>
> Chuck
>

Why do you assume NBC? The don't broadcast to all the world you know :)

But I think the problems are similar around the world. In NZ TVNZ has
the rights (not Sky thank heavens) with two channels going pretty much
all the time except for news (which will all be olympics anyway), and
one of the channels listing everything as "Beijing 2008 Games Of The
XXIX Olympiad", with a few more details in the description, but still
not enough to pin anything down. For example one 3 hour show is "Geoff
Bryan presents LIVE action from Day One in Beijing, featuring:
highlights from the Opening Ceremony; Beach Volleyball; Women's
Basketball (NZ v Malawi); Cycling; and the Men's Road Cycle Race. (G)"

The other channel has specific sports listed but still long blocks, eg
Mens/Womens Beach Volleyball for 300 mins described as "Men's and
Women's Prelims" - how the hell do I record just the women's?

And many of them have a rider "TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE".

Baaahhhh If you are a serious games watcher just record the whole
damned lot and leave the water cooler crowd to tell you when the good
stuff was on.
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Aug 11, 2008, 2:40 PM

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Re: Olympics Recording - How do I record individual events? [In reply to]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Why do you assume NBC? The don't broadcast to all the world you know :)
>
> But I think the problems are similar around the world. In NZ TVNZ has
> the rights (not Sky thank heavens) with two channels going pretty much
> all the time except for news (which will all be olympics anyway), and
> one of the channels listing everything as "Beijing 2008 Games Of The
> XXIX Olympiad", with a few more details in the description, but still
> not enough to pin anything down. For example one 3 hour show is "Geoff
> Bryan presents LIVE action from Day One in Beijing, featuring:
> highlights from the Opening Ceremony; Beach Volleyball; Women's
> Basketball (NZ v Malawi); Cycling; and the Men's Road Cycle Race. (G)"
>
> The other channel has specific sports listed but still long blocks, eg
> Mens/Womens Beach Volleyball for 300 mins described as "Men's and
> Women's Prelims" - how the hell do I record just the women's?
>
>
> And many of them have a rider "TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE".
>
> Baaahhhh If you are a serious games watcher just record the whole
> damned lot and leave the water cooler crowd to tell you when the good
> stuff was on.
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This brings up an question I was going to post. I initially setup the
Olympics to do a channel record (always record on channel NBC-DT...in
my case, the OTA HD NBC out of New York).

What bothered me is that several things weren't set up to record
because myth was interpreting them as previously recorded. Is this
reliable? It didn't appear to be, so I've been just setting
everything as a single record. I know that some things have an actual
episode id from schedules direct. If however the scheduling logic is
just using title, subtitle, and description, my guess is that it
wouldn't handle this reliably.

Am I assuming correctly? Frankly I've always meant to get a better
understanding of that "previously recorded" logic.

Tom
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