What with having seen all 10 best picture nominations and after felling the painful void which is a year without the Oscars in 2009… I was determined to watch the Oscars before the media got hold of the broadcast and spoiled all of my fun. So, it took a little doing, but, with the help of a European VCR and a PAL/NTSC converter I rigged up a way to record live television with my TiVo in Serbia. It works! I’ve tested it! As long as it’s not the Oscars…
So, the plan was noble. I set the TiVo to records starting at 2am and set my alarm clock for 5am. This would give me two and a half hours to watch, commercial free, before having to leave for work. And in theory, the plan worked out great… I actually got up… made myself a cup of coffee… walked into the living room and immediately noticed something… the TiVo was not recording. To be safe, I had set the recording for 5 hours… yet… it wasn’t recording.
What went wrong? Well… as I soon discovered… the internal clock of my TiVo is set to US Pacific Time… however, I programmed the recording based on the Serbian broadcast times. I know what you are thinking… “huh, what?” Yes… I felt the same way at 5am Monday morning as I choked on my own tears. Apparently, in order to initiate a recording at 2am, Monday, Serbian time… I should have scheduled the TiVo to start recording at 5pm, Sunday.
Yeah… I don’t know what I’m talking about either… but it’s the Inconvenient Truth.
Attempt 1 = Fail!
To be continued…
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