I had problems with shows being cut off prematurely if I had back-to-back recordings on the same channel. MC wasn’t allowing me to use separate tuners for each recording until I added the 10-minute overlap. What was strange is that my default record settings add 3- minutes before the show when possible, but when I changed the end time to 10 minutes after it also increased the before padding to 10 minutes. It fixed my tuner issue but now it uses up a lot more hard drive space for the same number of shows. Three minutes is more than ample overlap to account for slight schedule overruns in most cases.
