When I woke up this morning, my Tivo displayed an alert message warning that NBC had scheduled non-standard start times and lengths for it's Thursday night shows. As reported on various weblogs and Tivo forums, this seems clearly designed to manipulate Tivo boxes out there to skip recording other programming because of a conflict, all because of a 1 minute start time overlap. It's interesting to see how far a network (which has a financial stake in the Tivo service) will go to manipulate technology. Regardless of warnings from Tivo, there will be a lot of angry CSI fans surprised to see only ER on their PVR tonight.