Quote: gary numan "My virgin box records everytime slft is (supposedly) aired which is a good job as it can take a few attempts to find a recording that has the full programme. Only this morning i decided to watch Backchat and was greeted with sky poker, went to the second recording to find it was pool. fingers crossed that the recording this afternoon is the actual programme. Crap service.'"
You want to take that up with Virgin mate. They use a stupid string matching algorithm to decide what to record on their standard digibox. A decent service would send a program starting and program ending signal and the actual time and channel of broadcast wouldn't matter at all.
A VCR from 1980 with the option of recording an extra hour over the end provides a better service.