Even if we are going to watch something that airs at say 8pm on some evening, we normally wait until 8:15 or so (unless it's a longer than an hour recording) and then start watching. That way we can fast forward thru the commercials. It keeps us all from thinking we need the next great thing that's being marketed.
<br><br>We also record a lot of 1/2 hour shows that we can watch in 22 minutes (sans commercials of course) and use those as filler prior to watching a network show in a particular time slot. Of course it took us a while to develop our trust in MythTV before we'd do that. Now we pretty much take for granted that our shows will get recorded as we expect.
<br><br>...Kevin<br>