{"id":195,"date":"2003-09-23T13:38:09","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/09\/nbcs_smoking_crack\/"},"modified":"2003-09-23T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2003-09-23T17:38:09","slug":"nbcs_smoking_crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/nbcs_smoking_crack\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s Smoking Crack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me how companies do things to piss off their (most fervent) customers.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvrblog.com\/pvr\/2003\/09\/nbc_launching_a.html\" title=\"NBC launching attack on competitors by tweaking PVR owners?\">NBC has altered the start and end times of some of their Thursday night shows<\/a> apparently to keep TiVo (and other PVRs) users from recording certain CBS shows.  Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve done:<\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>8:00 Friends<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>8:48 Will &amp; Grace<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>9:27 Coupling<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>9.59 ER<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>The effect of this is that if someone has ER as a higher priority than CSI (9 &#8211; 10), then CSI will not be recorded because it conflicts with ER by one minute.  However, if CSI is a higher priority ER won&#8217;t be recorded.   TiVo users can manually tweak their schedules to record both shows, but it&#8217;s likely that many people would never even know about these conflicts until after the fact.  The result will be a lot of pissed off people.  (Of course those with dual tuner machines may not have this problem at all.)  My guess is that NBC will shoot themselves in the foot with this madness, especially in the cases where people have the CBS shows prioritized.  I guess this is the type of ish we&#8217;ll have to put up with as the networks try to fight the incursion of PVRs into the mainstream.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-1550889-10285737\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" alt=\"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It amazes me how companies do things to piss off their (most fervent) customers. NBC has altered the start and end times of some of their Thursday night shows apparently to keep TiVo (and other PVRs) users from recording certain CBS shows. Here&#8217;s what they&#8217;ve done: 8:00 Friends 8:48 Will &amp; Grace 9:27 Coupling 9.59&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/23\/nbcs_smoking_crack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NBC&#8217;s Smoking Crack!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":297,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/whats_on_my_tivo\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":0},"title":"What&#8217;s on My TiVo","date":"March 24, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's what's in my TiVo's Season Pass Manager. They're not necessarily in order from most favorite to least favorite. The shows that air multiple times per week have been pushed lower in the list to avoid conflicts with shows that only air once. That's why the HBO shows are down\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":287,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/13\/once_you_go_tivo_youll_never_go_back\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":1},"title":"Once You Go TiVo You&#8217;ll Never Go Back!","date":"March 13, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"My evil plan to spread TiVo is working beautifully. As some of you know I've been berating my brother, Tony, for wanting to build a PVR instead of just buying a TiVo. A couple of months ago he joined me on the dark side and picked up not one, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/08\/tivo_to_dvd\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":2},"title":"TiVo to DVD&#8230;","date":"January 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally, a solution for those of us with non-hacked Series2 TiVos to allow us to burn recorded shows to DVD -- TiVo and Sonic Team Up to Put TiVo on the Go.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/21\/top_reasons_to_own_a_tivo\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":3},"title":"Top Reasons to Own a TiVo","date":"March 21, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Since I'm working on my sixth TiVo convert at the moment I was thinking about TiVo's (lack of) marketing. So I thought I'd help them out with what I think are the best reasons to own a TiVo (or some other PVR). Back when they used to advertise they'd always\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":74,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/13\/youve_got_tivo\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":4},"title":"You&#8217;ve Got TiVo","date":"July 13, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Now you can program your TiVo via AOL: America Online is launching another feature tomorrow. This one's aimed at users of TiVo, the digital video recorder for television. AOL members with TiVo boxes will be able to program them via AOL by typing in the keyword \"TV Listings,\" clicking on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":360,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/22\/the_tivolution_claims_another_victim\/","url_meta":{"origin":195,"position":5},"title":"The TiVolution Claims Another Victim","date":"July 22, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I just had an instant message conversation with my boy Kamau. (Yes, this is the same guy that writes wrote at TheBlackHandSide.net. His blog disappeared because his hosting service has gone AWOL on him. I don't know if he's gonna start up a new site or not. If he does\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DIRECTV by Rapid Satellite","src":"http:\/\/www.awltovhc.com\/image-1550889-10285737","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}