No TV Party tonight
Oct. 21st, 2006 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoI am decidedly unthrilled with TiVo's new 'Red Flag' programming.
For those who don't know, there are apparently certain broadcasters who have demanded that some of their programs be presented so that (a) they can only be kept on the hard drive for a week and (b) cannot be recorded off the hard drive. EDIT: (c) as soon as somebody cracks the seal (watches any of it--like a few seconds) it will be deleted within 24 hours. Which is wicked ritahded especially if more than one person lives in the house and they don't share the exact same schedule.
This means that, for those of us with nonstandard schedules (me) who watch programmes of a serial nature (me) will probably miss chunks of the storylines. And at this point, I'm figuring that if I can't keep up then I'm just going to say 'screw it' and not bother watching those series. Inuyasha was on the bubble already, and I've seen Doctor Who on the sly, but I'd kind of miss Battlestar Galactica and Heroes. And who knows what shows are going to be next on the chopping block.
If we had a home network set up quest thing, then maybe we could shuttle them to a hard drive where we controlled the date and could tell it that these programs should be deleted in about six or seven years. I don't know. We don't have one of those things.
For those who don't know, there are apparently certain broadcasters who have demanded that some of their programs be presented so that (a) they can only be kept on the hard drive for a week and (b) cannot be recorded off the hard drive. EDIT: (c) as soon as somebody cracks the seal (watches any of it--like a few seconds) it will be deleted within 24 hours. Which is wicked ritahded especially if more than one person lives in the house and they don't share the exact same schedule.
This means that, for those of us with nonstandard schedules (me) who watch programmes of a serial nature (me) will probably miss chunks of the storylines. And at this point, I'm figuring that if I can't keep up then I'm just going to say 'screw it' and not bother watching those series. Inuyasha was on the bubble already, and I've seen Doctor Who on the sly, but I'd kind of miss Battlestar Galactica and Heroes. And who knows what shows are going to be next on the chopping block.
If we had a home network set up quest thing, then maybe we could shuttle them to a hard drive where we controlled the date and could tell it that these programs should be deleted in about six or seven years. I don't know. We don't have one of those things.
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Date: 2006-10-22 12:34 am (UTC)If you have a cable box, try power cycling it - sometimes that clears things up.
This isn't unique to TiVo, most recording devices support Macrovision. TiVo has had it for a few years now, so if this just started showing up something probably changed on you video source.
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Date: 2006-10-22 12:43 am (UTC)And thank you very much--this confirms some of what I'm hearing from aberrantvirtue, that what's going on isn't supposed to be going on.
We just switched over to digital cable, which may be a root cause for this in addition to being its own fresh hell. (We're seeing too many recordings of blank screen with intermittent colorful pixellation, or an hour of 'this channel will be available momentarily'. Which is adding to my 'screw television' mood at the moment.)
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Date: 2006-10-22 12:46 am (UTC)