HBO movies - early ? late ? (Star Wars)

[kstuart]

How close does HBO hold to its start times for movies ?

I'm asking because - like many people - I'm going to DVR as many of the Star Wars movies today as I can, and I am wondering how to set the "minutes early" setting ?

What happened in the case of the previous HBO showings of Star Wars movies back-to-back ?

Thanks!

 

[dfergie]

Mine are set for 1 minute before JIC... I just set timers for all 6 myself to compare PQ between my 622 and 921...

 

[gadgtfreek]

Man, Im glad you posted that. I wanted to record iv, v and vi on hbohd today.

 

[dfergie]

I was about 30 seconds early, got the IN HD on HBO where Available, II had the tail end of the credits from I on it...not bad

 

[gadgtfreek]

Gotta love the channels. Recording star wars on HBOHD and watching Conan on HDNET.

 

[downriver]

yesterday evening my guide was showing Star Wars 4 when in fact they wuz showing #1.

 

[kstuart]

To answer my own question - for some future person doing a search of the Forum - they started each movie after the beginning of the Guide start time, so no pre-record was necessary.

And most of the movies had a significant amount of HBO commercials in the last few minutes of the scheduled time slot. This was longer in prime time than in late night, and probably varied depending on the actual running time of the film as compared to the time slot.

If you can remember to come back to your DVR within 5 or 10 minutes of the scheduled end time, you might be able to shave a few minutes off the length of the recording (by stopping when the commercials start) and thus save some hard drive space. If you want to recordings to be "clean", you will need to start manually, because some will have a minute or so of commercials at the beginning (but others not).

 

[dfergie]

My 622 crashed or rebooted in episode I, II and IV... but I have them all on my 921...

 

[bigdaddy10]

yesterday evening my guide was showing Star Wars 4 when in fact they wuz showing #1.

Star Wars 4 is #1. They are out of sequence. The original Star Wars we all know is actually Star Wars IV: A New Hope