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Originally Posted by Mr Wizard
I tried that approach too. The problem was that if you didn't get the DVR timing just right you wouldn't be able to watch the start of the new (next hour) shows when they began if the the DVR'ed show wasn't over.
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Most OTA TV has 18 minutes of content for every 30 minutes of broadcast. Tivo has four tuners. One can tune in four separate channels, or, for example, two channels, each duplicated. You can back up a broadcast to its beginning, FF through commercials (or use the one button 30 second advance) while the show continues to record. For the NBC evening news it is two bleeps for the first 60 second commercial break, then usually four or five for subsequent breaks. ABC presents a problem in that they usually have, after the first segment of content, only 10 or 15 seconds of content between commercial breaks. I let that show record entirely, then let the automated commercial deletion feature work its magic upon replay.