bwarbiany,
Also meant to add....you asked me about the YTTV experience. One annoying thing is if a long program is still recording, I have no luck starting at the beginning if it's 3 hours past the start point. Big problem when the wife is trying to start Wimbledon late, or even long football games. If a game (or anything, could be the long-ass The Godfather II) has been going for 3 hours and is still going, I pretty much have to wait until it's finished recording to start at the beginning. Otherwise, even if you tell it to start at the beginning, it goes to live anyway and can only be rewound 3 hours from there.
I had this same issue with Hulu Live TV, so it could just be a ubiquitous hindrance at the moment. That's not too big a deal to me, it only comes up once in a blue moon, but it's one of those tradeoffs I mentioned, that for me, are worth it to pay so much less.
Hopefully it doesn't bite me on the butt in a couple of weeks. CBS already slated LSU @ Bama for 2:30 and I have a commitment at my church that afternoon. Meaning if I can't get home and start that game by 5:30, I'm just going to have to wait until it's over to watch it, or else jump in a game already in progress.