1. The channels (esp BBC) are terrible timekeepers. Oh god yes. This is likely due to them setting the schedules a week in advance, and then not bothering to update them, even if the schedule changes.
3. Many of the good things that are on are repeats (or I've seen them before), and this is hard to spot from the electronic program guides. Even if you read the synopses they give. They could refer to any episode, half the time. Simpsons 6pm: Bart gets in trouble at school. Homer says D'oh.
4. When you have access to a pause feature, it takes a lot longer to watch a TV programme. Or maybe it's just me being obsessive. No, you're just watching more of it. With pause (and ever worse, rewind) you don't miss half the show. With some shows this is a Bad ThingTM.
1. The channels (esp BBC) are terrible timekeepers.
Yup, BBC2 consistently runs late, although not by more than two minutes. Still, just enough to miss the end of the programme. Hence the fabled TiVo: dee-boop! Everyone Else: Arrrgh!
This has lead to every right-minded TiVo owner now using soft-padding. So, on my configuration, the recording starts one minute early, and overruns by two minutes. Unless that involves cutting another recording short.
Hyperdrive is funnier than Titty Bangbang. But about as stupid.undyingkingJanuary 18 2006, 09:26:58 UTC
I thought they were both quite dispiritingly pathetic... if this is the brave new comedy world of 2006, please shoot me now. Ah well.
We have a Humax one-tuner box but are planing to trade up, and considering the Topfield. Does it have that useful TiVo feature where you can just tell it to record all Simpsons indefinitely without you having to keep reserving each individual one?
Re: Hyperdrive is funnier than Titty Bangbang. But about as stupid.dr_bobJanuary 18 2006, 12:02:24 UTC
Does it have that useful TiVo feature where you can just tell it to record all Simpsons indefinitely without you having to keep reserving each individual one?
Not as such, but it does have a weekly/daily/everyweekend/weekday options for anything you set, so if you know the time's going to be consistent week to week, that'll work.
Also, they have dowloadably TAPs, which are open source/free software add-ons that may allow this sort of thing if you download them. As yet, I haven't played with such things, but they promise maximum adaptability out of the system.
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Oh god yes. This is likely due to them setting the schedules a week in advance, and then not bothering to update them, even if the schedule changes.
3. Many of the good things that are on are repeats (or I've seen them before), and this is hard to spot from the electronic program guides.
Even if you read the synopses they give. They could refer to any episode, half the time.
Simpsons 6pm: Bart gets in trouble at school. Homer says D'oh.
4. When you have access to a pause feature, it takes a lot longer to watch a TV programme. Or maybe it's just me being obsessive.
No, you're just watching more of it.
With pause (and ever worse, rewind) you don't miss half the show.
With some shows this is a Bad ThingTM.
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4. When you have access to a pause feature, it takes a lot longer to watch a TV programme.
Though fast-forwarding through the ads can make up that lost time.
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Yup, BBC2 consistently runs late, although not by more than two minutes. Still, just enough to miss the end of the programme. Hence the fabled
TiVo: dee-boop!
Everyone Else: Arrrgh!
This has lead to every right-minded TiVo owner now using soft-padding. So, on my configuration, the recording starts one minute early, and overruns by two minutes. Unless that involves cutting another recording short.
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We have a Humax one-tuner box but are planing to trade up, and considering the Topfield. Does it have that useful TiVo feature where you can just tell it to record all Simpsons indefinitely without you having to keep reserving each individual one?
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Not as such, but it does have a weekly/daily/everyweekend/weekday options for anything you set, so if you know the time's going to be consistent week to week, that'll work.
Also, they have dowloadably TAPs, which are open source/free software add-ons that may allow this sort of thing if you download them. As yet, I haven't played with such things, but they promise maximum adaptability out of the system.
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