Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Fox Network Alienates DVR TV Watchers


Did anyone record the American Idol finale this week? We always record the show and my wife watches it on a delay so she can fast forward through some of the fluf in the show. She fast forwarded through the entire recording only to realize that the Fox network played around with the schedule and made the results announcement after the guide thought the show was over (past the 2 hour mark). Because of that she missed the actual announcement. I typically add padding on some shows (an extra few minutes at the end of shows) to prevent this, but never have done this for American Idol because... well I didn't think it was really that big of a deal. My wife on the other hand was ticked when we missed the winner announcement. The TV networks really know how to tick off their customers...