Iceberg my question is refering to this question
It's guess work really. I usually set for 1.5 hours and that has always been enough. If you set the overrun time too short, you might miss the program. Setting it too long just means there will be some of the next program at the end but you will stop playing back before you get to it. With the Genie having five tuners, keeping one tuner on a channel too long does not really matter.
set up the series link with the overrun time. if you find it is too short, make it longer. If you don't need the overrun because the live sports program is removed (end of the sports season for example) just go in and remove the overrun from the series link.
and my follow up question could you tell me the set up using series recording with 1.5 hours for both the Good Wife and Mentalist ?