Finally figured out why my DVR kept cutting off the last 3 minutes of every show finale

It took me 7 months to realize my recording padding was set to 0 minutes. I just thought the network was weird about timing. Missed the endings of like 5 finales including the big one for that sci-fi show everyone talked about. Finally caught it when I sat down to watch the Yellowstone finale and it cut off right as Beth was about to say something. Has anyone else had this dumb setting ruin a finale watch?

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parkermorgan10d ago

Wasted way too long thinking "oh the networks just hate us" before I figured out it was my own dumb setting. Actually got pretty mad at NBC for a solid month thinking they shortened the last episode of that one detective show. Then I opened my DVR settings and realized I was just a moron who never checked the padding. Kinda embarrassing but it feels good to finally not blame the cable company anymore.

gibson.robert10d agoMost Upvoted

dude @parkermorgan i feel this so hard. i did the exact same thing with my old cable box, spent like two weeks ranting about how TBS must hate me because the last 5 minutes of every Simpsons rerun got cut off. finally called my buddy who works for a cable company and he was like "bro just check your padding settings." felt like such an idiot when i saw it was set to zero. i bumped it up to 3 minutes on both ends and suddenly i was seeing credits and everything. now i tell everyone to check that first before blaming the networks.