Comments on: Memphis meltdown

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:27:29 +0000

Russ, I’d love to hook up MythTV to this thing. If we cared more about TV, we would. As it is, sports is about all we watch, and than only when it matters.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:24:10 +0000

There’s an old bumper sticker that says:

DUKE
The University of New Jersey at Durham

I didn’t go there. (Instead I went to Guilford College, source of World B. Free, M.L. Carr and Bob Kauffman.) But I did work there, and live for years in Durham. That’s how I got into the team.

My loyalties are kind of spread across Duke, Carolina and Wake Forest, thanks to family connections at all three places. This year I also cared a bit for the UMBC Retrievers, because my daughter teaches there.

For football, the family connections are all on the west coast: USC, UCLA, Cal.

That Seton Hall game was so awful. Duke totally fell apart. Kind of like Carolina did in the first half against Kansas this year.

By: Dave Politis

Dave Politis — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:21:31 +0000

I had the Tigers winning it all too, Doc. It was very, very painful to watch the last three minutes of that game.

Me, when it comes to Tivo-ing sports events, I always manually set the record feature for 30 minutes to an hour longer than the anticipated ending. I only had to miss one ending of an important game to set that precedent for-ev-er!

By: Jim Russell

Jim Russell — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:20:51 +0000

Wait a minute — a Jersey boy like you wasn’t rooting for the Hall in 1989? Yeah, Michigan took the final. By one point. In overtime. Argh.

They came back from 18 points behind in the Duke game.

By: Russell Nelson

Russell Nelson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:29:32 +0000

Open Source FTW, Doc.

By: J

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:30:23 +0000

Comcast DVR lets you set over-record option. But yes in a perfect world it would just “know”. Too bad it goes off of the guide instead of some kind of hidden stream in the video feed that says “hey this show is still on keep recording”

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:45:37 +0000

My DVR is in my Verizon FiOS set top box. Seems rather short on TiVo-grade features. The one in our Dish Network box at our main house (in California) works much better and offers many more advantages.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:14:07 +0000

A DVR note — the recording options seem to vary by service provider.

My DVR service (SaskTel MAX) let’s me choose whether to over-record (or, oddly, start late) by 15 minutes, 30 minutes or 1 hour. It tells me when recording overtime conflicts with another scheduled recording too.

On the downside, it doesn’t have an option to record all episodes of a series with one click, like some others I’ve seen. Just the old One Time, Daily, Weekly options like my VCR.

By: Tom O'B

Tom O'B — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:09:59 +0000

With Tivo when it knows it is a live event it asks if you want to add an hour when you set it up to record. You only have to miss one fantastic finish to choose this option. (Better UI).

Also, I do think that Calipari was out-coached by Bill Self (who woulda thought) and you are exactly right – Memphis did NOT make the free throws that would have iced the game.

Props to Kansas for keeping their cool and executing. They did not make a single mistake in the last 5 minutes of the game or in overtime. Really smart basketball.