Fiddling around does work!

While my computer was undergoing the 9,999,999th crash cycle (and not at a good time, I was preparing to start summarising the midday news bulletins), I decided to figure out how to record these shows on my two PVRs for tomorrow night, since last week was an absolute schmozzle, missing out one show and having to use a tape to record another show.

Because I’m at darts of a Thursday, I need to tape shows so I can watch them later (I don’t subscribe to this channel BT nonsense either), and the shows in question are:

• 8.30pm Out of the Question (Prime)
• 9.00pm Family Guy (Prime)
• 10.15pm UEFA Champions League Hour (SBS)
• 10.30pm American Dad (Prime)
• 10.30pm The Nightcap (7HD via Prime HD)
• 11.15pm The Late Show with David Letterman (Southern Cross Ten)

Now, I happen to have two PVRs, both 160GB, but one of them is a twin-tuner HD PVR, and the other is a twin-tuner SD PVR, but you cannot record two shows at the one time with the latter. You can watch one and record another, but not record two shows.

So…I had to sit down with a TV Week, piece of paper and a pen and figure it out. Basically, here is the main points of note:

• The Nightcap can only be recorded on the HD box.
• Out of the Question and Family Guy can be recorded on either.
• Again, the SD PVR cannot record two shows at once.

I came up with this solution, and so far, it all appears to be locked in:

On The HD box…

• 8.30pm Out of the Question (Prime)
• 9.00pm Family Guy (Prime)
• 10.15pm UEFA Champions League Hour (SBS)
• 10.30pm The Nightcap (7HD via Prime HD)

On the SD box…

• 10.30pm American Dad (Prime)
• 11.15pm The Late Show with David Letterman (Southern Cross Ten)

Of course, this doesn’t take into account the shithouse programming practices of the commercial networks. But we’ll see. There’s no live programming tomorrow night, so it shouldn’t delay any programs.

Yes, I was bored. And decided to mash buttons. But it could work!

See? Playing around does come up with some good solutions…