Arrrggghhhh... Cartoon Network scheduling

[Mark Holtz]

Sigh... I hate this....

It seems that I'm this board's resident otaku, but still...

.hack//SIGN is supposed to start at 9 PM. However, when my PVR kicked in at 8:57 PM, they were halfway through the opening credits. Thank goodness I'm collecting the series on DVD. But still, it's irritating. (Added) Okay, the show ends at 9:22. As far as I know, they're not editing the show. And now, they're starting Gundam 0080 at 9:26 PM.

This isn't first time for the Toonami and Adult swim. G Gundam and Tenchi Muyo have been started off schedule before, and G Gundam, near the end of the first run, did a surprise double-episode that was totally unannounced.

[dtcarson]

I agree with your conclusion, if not your premise. [that is, I didn't catch .hack//SIGN, although I think I wanted to, and just missed it.

Since I got my PVR, I've been recording Futurama [which is on Sun-Thursday, and there's no schedule for that, so I end up with one episode of the New Scooby Doo or something on my PVR.] I was out of town week before last, and stayed up late watching Futurama and started enjoying Home Movies. So I got home and set up the PVR to start recording that. I get one week's worth of episodes, then lo and behold they dump it for that stupid [IMHO] Family Guy [which coincidentally just came out on DVD, and Cartoon's playing of Futurama steered me away from buying Futurama on DVD.]
And the majority of Simpsons that are being replayed in syndication twice a day, that I'm PVR'ing, are from the last three seasons, and I've seen each of them at least three times. So my PVR will get a break, at least till I find something else that's on regularly enough for me to record it. Luckily I've still got about 5 hours of Tylor on DVD, and many other DVD's, to get me through till then.

And to widen the thread a bit: it seems that the PVR clock, which I assume it gets from the satellite, is not in sync with the networks clock, so in order for me to get the beginning of anything, I have to start it 1 minute early. I haven't noticed a difference as egregious as the one in your example, Z'Loth, but it's still annoying. Is there any way to correct or manually sync the PVR/reciever clock?

[Mark Holtz]

It's not the clocks on the receivers that is the problem. The receivers receive the time signal from the Network Operations room on Wyoming, who, in turn, receive it from a time service akin to the time on GPS or an atomic clock.

No, this is the networks fault.

[dtcarson]

Ah, ok....we are discussing two slightly different issues. For TOON to start something that early, they definitely need to check their clocks. With my scenario, it seems like unless I hit 'start 1 minute early', I miss some of *everything* [granted, sometimes just the initial credits/theme song, but still.] So I'm not sure whose clock is wrong, but someone's definitely is.

[Mark Holtz]

Well, this week, they started .hack//SIGN at 8:59 PM instead of 8:56 PM.