Is There A Problem With Overlap Protection?
Several people are reporting a problem where by their TiVo is reducing the recording time of certain shows for no apparent reason. Could this be a bug in TiVo’s new overlap projection feature? It’s hard to say but it sure does look like overlap projection may be causing the problem.
My wife just told me that she has seen this problem as well. Now that I’m having the problem, I would like to find a solution ;). A couple of people have said that turning off overlap protection fixes the problem. If you are having this problem, head on over to TiVo’s support forum and get in on the discussion. I’m going to try turning off overlap projection so I’ll let you know how it goes.
Thanks David: via the feedback form.
February 10th, 2006 at 12:49 am |
I had the exact same problem. Even when shows had nothing bumping up against them the last few minutes would get cut off. I turned off overlap protection and now it works fine. It’s stupid that Tivo hasn’t fixed it, but I didn’t use the overlap that much anyway.
February 10th, 2006 at 7:27 am |
I just started having the problem about a week or so ago. Last night I, of course, Googled and found that, at least, I’m not alone.
What’s most disturbing though, isn’t the problem (it’s technology - things break) but that TiVo still hasn’t officially responded to the users and didn’t even unofficially respond, it seems, for well over a month, based on the comments on some of the threads I’ve read.
February 12th, 2006 at 10:44 pm |
This isn’t quite related, but I wonder why I cannot schedule a program and have a choice to “record this program, except where it overlaps with a another program.” A good example of this is during the Olympics, which have 4 hour blocks. I might want to schedule that, but have a 30 min. program already scheduled during that time. What I have to do then is to schedule manually.
February 18th, 2006 at 11:17 pm |
TiVo Overlap Protection cost me the last couple of minutes of LOST this week… which is my #2 Wish List program, and had absolutely nothing conflicting with it at the end anyway. It just stopped recording for no apparent reason. WAKE UP AND FIX THIS, TIVO!!!
February 21st, 2006 at 9:11 am |
Check over at TiVoCommunity
Looks like Tivo has a software solution, as well as a trivial work-around until they get the software out. Simply reboot your Tivo and everything will be happy.
Has nothing to do with overlap protection, or any software change, other than their last release. If you follow further in the thread, its uptime that causes the problem, meaning that a reboot will resolve.
February 21st, 2006 at 10:06 am |
Thanks MikeB for letting us know about this thread. Contained within that thread is a detailed description of what the problem is. Here is a link in case you are interested.