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- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23If you missed the end of ANY episode of CSI, here's what happened:
- The team will be led in the wrong direction until someone finds some absolutely obscure clue that changes everything, rendering the first 45 minutes of the show irrelevent (i.e. "Shampoo residue just discovered on the hair follicle contains zinc, which is a treatment for seborrheic dermatitis, which I noticed our detainee suffers from. He's the killer."
- Upon being presented with this flimsy evidence, the suspect will immediately confess to everything, explaining how and why they did it (against the advice of their lawyer, if present).
- Two main characters experiencing negative tension will grudgingly have to agree that working together helped solve this case...but that doesn't mean we're friends, OK?
- Catherine will find that some element of this case tweaks a memory of some sensitive time in her past, which is only conveyed through fleeting facial expressions.
- When standing in front of a giant, unnecessary, expensive projection of the crime scene images on the wall (or enormous acetate blowups on the light table), additional characters will each enter the room with a crucial piece of informaition just discovered, at just the perfect time in the conversation as if they've been listening outside the door the whole time for just the dramatic moment.
- Grissom will close the show with some ancient quote from the Bartlett's book in his mind, showing him not only to be well-read and artsy, but incredibly mysterious.
- Executive Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer - hater2win, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Missing any part of 24 means certain death... self inflicted usually.
- thefurryone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You forgot:
- The producers will slip infectious and 'hip' music in order to either sell the records or attract the younger viewers flipping through who just happen to hear the clip of Nine Inch Nails matched to a violent murder.
- Brass will make a wiseass remark and nobody will chuckle, laugh, smile, smirk, or even blink.
- The writers will completely misrepresent a fetish, interest, or subculture and pass it off as complete deadpan fact, making people in those categories feel even more alienated from the mainstream.
- Nick will be completely f%^$#ing useless except for maybe fifteen seconds.
- I will be glued to my god damned set for every second of it. - sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16TiVo will probably fix this very quickly with a small patch update so nothing to worry about. And anyways TiVo is the best DVR available (other than MythTV). Unless you want a Windows XP Media Center which freezes, gets viruses, and needs to restart it self randomly. Also TiVo has a pretty good track record, so im sure it we won't see this again.
-http://www.skattertech.com - leadx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Yeah, but it sucks.... I lost the last few minutes of "24" last night... not cool.
- wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Every time a TiVo cuts off an episode of 24 Jack Bauer kills a terrorist..which says something about both the firmware on TiVo and the Jack Bauer approach to Counter Terrorism.
- Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -1/+7The last minutes of CSI were cut off? Then you didn't miss anything.
- VinceA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The patch is already available (7.2.2). My Series 2's downloaded it last night.
- SixSider, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I am pretty amazed my tivo has been running for 3 years and not a putter..
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Yeah, but it sucks.... I lost the last few minutes of "24" last night... not cool."
get the torrent... - sound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The myth that computers should be regularly rebooted is due almost entirely to Microsoft tech support. I (and my company) manage *hundreds* of computers that reliably go a minimum of 100 days between reboots, and it is usually *much* longer than that. The current site I am at has 65 monitored systems with an AVERAGE uptime of over 220 days. The longest since reboot is a machine that has been running for 770 days. I will be rebooting a small server later today due to an OS upgrade after 308 days. We do NOT reboot just because we feel like it, we reboot when we have to apply kernel patches or upgrade the OS.
Oh, by the way, the vast majority of the systems I manage are Sun Solaris boxes, with a few MacOSX, Linux, and AIX boxes thrown in for good measure. Notice anything ... they are all Unix based systems. - hitbyatrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The solution is a reboot. Unplug your machine, then plug it back in and it'll be fine.
- msilverman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I lost 15 minutes of "Lost" a couple weeks ago because of this (kinda ironic, eh?)
Luckily, there's always torrents, which I have come to think of as a giant TiVo backup system (useful for other eventualities as well, such as when The Simpsons is pre-empted by the last 15 minutes of a football game or some weatherman breaking in to your show let you know of some storm 6 counties away!) - meersan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I myself began to experience "clipping" three weeks ago, though I had no idea what the problem was. The culmination occurred when my Tivo abstained from recording the last 8 minutes of the season finale of Battlestar Galactica. The sidewalk was spared numerous chunky pieces of Tivo-colored plastic when my BF restrained me from hurling my Tivo off the balcony.
Apparently this has been happening since January. If there is a patch out this week, as another commenter wrote, one wonders why it took so long. Isn't the fundamental responsibility of a DVR to record the entire program it has been told to record? On the forums there are posts from people who rebooted and continued to experience the problem.
The Tivo forums have plenty of people who have experienced this. Look for "clipping" or "ending shows early". It does seem to be a Series 2 issue.
http://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/forums/defaultview?msgBoardID=10100105
January posts about Tivo not recording whole programs:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=283908 - haqattaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I liked to see the stats on 'Lost' and '24' downloads after users found that the shows were clipped...
They might as well put a link on the TIVO menu.
Missing Show? Clipped Show? go here to download what u missed.. - JayWright, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I sometimes find that the opening/ending credits are cut off, but that's usually about all. Can't you fix this by setting your Tivo to begin recording a few minutes prior to the start of the program, and end recording a few minutes after the end? This might not work if it's a software glich, but it seems like a logical way to "trick" your Tivo...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"I lost the last 15 minutes of Lost" -- lol did anyone else catch that?
- zahngol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This actually sounds like the "upgrade" that I recieved a message about on my TiVo a while back. The message stated that the new update was going to keep you from missing the beginning and endings of your favorite shows by letting you prioritize them. The TiVo switches over a few minutes early to higher priority shows that are scheduled for recording right after lower priority show. I'm not sure if this is what's happening to people or not, but I thought it was worth mentioning. I thought it was a stupid idea myself.
- TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a Tivo 1.0 and have had no problems. Just problems with the cable box magically turning itself off. Thanks Time Warner for giving auto updates to your digital boxes and not being able to turn them back on afterwards causing all my shows to record a blank screen. But I digress...
- dognose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe they they are quietly readying the automatic removal of commercials. This would shorten the shows by about that much time?
- WarPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Odd, my Beyond TV running on Windows XP never crashes, restarts, gets viruses or any of the rest of the FUD you are spreading.
And it's better than TiVO."
Agreed!! Also that uptime crap all them nix freaks are spouting is *****. The rebooting and low uptime issues with windows went bye bye with Win 2000 and Windows XP I have lots of windows boxes that I have had running without reboot for similar amounts of time. Besides the times I do reboot aren't as bad as all the time I would have wasted looking for nix drivers that may or may not exist and may or may not actually work. - Solstice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1MythTV is awesome. I've got a box with 3 PVR-250 tuners in it and a 500 GB hard disk. With 3 tuners, I can have just about all of my recordings go 15 minutes after the end of the program without worry that it won't be able to record the next show on some other channel. I'm thinking of adding a 4th tuner just in case it needs it - I've got an open slot left. :-)
A 1-Tuner TiVo is just not enough TV for me... - bigbird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lost the last 15 minutes of lost, O the irony!
- Kluv32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I actually had this problem a month or two ago. Losing the last five minutes of LOST can be a killer. After checking out the TiVo forums, it showed that they (TiVo) were aware of the problem, and they were working on a patch -- meanwhile, according to the techs, all you have to do to fix it is reset your TiVo Box. You shouldn't have a problem after that (I haven't).
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TiVo runs Linux, which doesn't leak memory like a sieve, and actually has protected memory, so you don't have to reboot it. I know it's nothing to brag about because other people can post much longer uptimes, but I have a Linux box that serves several medium-volume websites and email, and it's current uptime is 209 days, and not a glitch.
- TootsMutant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I had this problem on two of my TiVos. The info screen on a show said it was a "partial" recording. Warm reboot (rebooting through the menu) did nothing to help. Deleting all my "suggestions" either made the problem go away, or was a sufficiently ritualized chicken-swinging exercise as to give me the illusion of some control.
In any case, it's nice to see the problem being addressed. - mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My Rogers PVR (Canada) decides arbitarily what it will and won't record, despite what I tell it to. Sure, it's set to record and it's highlighted in the list, but nothing goin' on.
It also tells me that it can't record more than three shows at once when I'm setting it to record only one, asking me to cancel the show I'm setting it to record. Not only that, but shows I've never selected to record (Gilmour Girls?!) happily write themselves to the PVR when I'm wanting to watch something else. Hooray!
Calls to Rogers tech support (which any Rogers customer will highly recommend you avoid) say that "they are aware of this problem," though they've been saying this to me for years. - sonicdevo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You wouldn't by chance live in Oklahoma would you? Because I know that there's nothing Gary England likes to do more than to interrupt prime time TV at the first sign of severe weather. And now the other station's weather men have begun to follow suit. :(
- hibtone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This warrants a NYTimes article? Reboot, problem solved. No big whoop.
- Radiantwave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dittto! ...and always when the ending solves the whoe mystery of the show... I always thought it was the tv station trying to mess with tivo's. It always seems to be USA or SCiFi or TBS... and the show times are shifted by 5 min... so you lose the last portion of the show.
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sadly, it should never be "nice to see" problems being addressed, since they SHOULD be addressed immediately for a product being sold. Unfortunately, we've all resigned ourselves to accepting mediocrity as "good enough," for the most part.
- Timsher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the article -
"TiVo says it has since created an upgrade to its operating system — which is being downloaded automatically to all Series 2 TiVo boxes — and that it should solve the problem permanently."
So problem solved I guess? - TargetDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12:00 a.m. - My Tivo just rebooted itself. Is this from the service?
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And my totally free Myth box keeps recording away...
- zweizweifunf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1aaaand seconded. brilliant writer, lamenting tivo screwing up plotlines for people then with his/her opening salvo, rendering any kind of build up to the last season useless for those of us not having time to waste watching the 10 or so good shows on tv right now.
bollocks to that. - DocDEB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also part of the problem with Lost is that ABC varies the end time from the published schedule — anywhere from 2-5 min. I gave up recording CSI: NY because of that but it was no big loss.
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my tivo has easily run a year or more without reboots. i even have it on a UPS so any momentray power outages won't crash it. it is a computer and it does take a while to reboot. it never happens during a comercial. :D
- ollywompus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My VCR never cuts off shows.
:-P
And I never have to pay for a subscription either.
Of course it's not as cool, since I don't have a fancy buttoned remote, and it doesn't run linux (yet >:) )
-olly - pyrzqxgl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The worst thing about the NYT article (or another one on the same subject): The dumbass reporter opened the article with a Sopranos spoiler.
"If your Tivo cut off the last few minutes of the Sopranos season opener you wouldn't have known that Tony...." I wanted to introduce him to my friends in Jersey waste management. - DocDEB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1leadx: Yeah, but it sucks.... I lost the last few minutes of "24" last night... not cool.
So here you go a quick summary of the last few minutes of 24 last night. Jack DID NOT kill or torture anyone though it clearly looked like he wanted to. CTU is limping along and no closer to foiling the terrorists. A new plot twist has been introduced with President Palmer's brother. Anyone else — anything I missed? - teacherG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought I was going crazy until i read this digg. I have a DirecTV TiVo and it has only been clipping F1 qualifing about 10 to 15 mins; no problems with 24 or any other weekly programs. I'm going to try the reboot. Hopefully that fixes it. Shame of TiVo especially after jacking prices and stopping lifetime services on boxes.
- markman07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"And my totally free Myth box keeps recording away..."
So your computer is stolen?. Explain how this is FREE? - trogdor282, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The thing that fascinates me most about CSI is how much sex and violence it has, but since everybody goes to jail at the end old people are cool with it. Take that, FCC.
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've never had any clipping problems on either of my Series 2 TiVos.
Though my girlfriend complains that HGTV gets clipped, I determined it's actually our local feed that's about 2 minutes slow, so I just padded any recording on that channel a bit. - hitbyatrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope, this is something different. The original update was to allow you to choose which show was cut short if they overlapped by a minute or two. Like when NBC lists ER until 9:01 but something else starts at 9:00 on another station.
This is confirmed by TiVo to be a software bug, and again, is fixable by a reboot. - Tricia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I haven't had this happen. My brother has, but he just assumed his 7 yr old changed the channel and ignored the prompt that the tivo was recording. But at least torrents make it easy to see what you missed.
- sjgmoney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Missed end of 24? You forgot to include yet another plot twist involving one of Jack Bauer's beeeatchs!!! Who the hell does the employee screening at CTU, Helen Keller?
- CrazyNic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1have found any problems of this kind yet *crossing fingers*
- BigBadHoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you also missed that audrey rains sold the plans to that intel broker, for the distribution center.
- PhantomZmoove, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same here, although I'm still using the original software from 3 years ago. I don't ever hook it up to a phone line. It does everything I need right now, so there's no need to "upgrade" it.
I have missed the ending of a couple shows, due mostly to bad weather at the time of recording. Well, the ending is still there, its just sort of scrambled. BT to the rescue. -
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