3.0 has negative padding ability, but it's not enabled by default. You can change the padding menus to any values you want with that script, down to the second.

Now that is seriously neat.

However, my TiVo is truly a "black box" (well, silver, actually) to me. I couldn't even tell you what version of software is in it (I think it gets upgraded automatically during the nightly phone calls, doesn't it?) and I would certainly not have the skills (or courage) to go in and start hacking it.

Any chance that this negative padding might be included as part of the standard software someday?

tanstaafl.