http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/technology/personaltech/making-sure-you-record-the-whole-tv-show.html 2016-10-14 18:37:17 Making Sure You Record the Whole TV Show Live events running long can mess up your video recordings, but you can use a few workarounds to make sure you get the end of that game or show. === Q. A. While American DVRs cannot automatically adjust themselves to real-time programming changes, the technology to extend recording times for live events has arrived. In 2015, the entertainment-data company, Many companies are starting to step up to the problem. Last year, Even without a prompt to automatically extend the recording time for live events, most DVRs give you the power to tack extra time beyond a show’s standard time slot when you schedule the recording. (Just adding an extra hour of recording time to whatever you want to snag on Sundays may serve as a workaround during football season.) Some providers also let you select a channel (instead of a specific show) in the electronic programming guide and record it for hours to make sure you get what you want on the DVR. If you are not at home and have the mobile DVR-management smartphone app from your service provider or Mangled recordings are not a universal problem. Digital video recorders in some parts of the world