[opendtv] Re: New Thread: What becomes of Legacy Analog Equipment
- From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:54:45 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> What Bert does not acknowledge, perhaps because he is
> dependent on the broadcasters for PSIP and program guide
> info, is that the real driver behind the DVR is the program
> guide, not the ability to record.
Depends who you ask, I suppose.
Remember how peeved I was when TV Guide went frivolous? It became a mag for
pre-teen and teenage girls some months ago. The reason I was peeved is that
there is no good alternative for those who want to do time-shift recording,
unless they give up and let themselves be subjected to another monthly bill.
Which I find exceedingly obnoxious to do for such a mundane function as
time-shift recording.
So what I've been doing is using on-line zap2it.com to get my schedule. A week
or so in advance. Print out prime time (mostly) programs. Or I buy the Sunday
paper and use the TV schedule insert. Neither of these is ideal, but they'll do
for me.
PSIP, as implemented now, is not a good option at all. In principle, it could
be, however. The two problems I see are (a) receivers don't store all stations'
schedules in advance, so it's painfully slow to browse the program offerings,
and (b) stations are amazingly blase about the information they do provide, and
you're lucky if it even shows the next day's schedule.
Bert
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