On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:23:45 +0200
"Henning Holtschneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The Fernseh-Fee will stop recording while commercials are sent out.
> > (commercial free decoder)
> >
> > Anyone knows how this could be done ?
> > The product description says that the stations send out start/stop
> > signals whean ads are sent ?! Do we know those signals ?
>
> It's not the TV stations that send those signals but the manufacturer of the
> "Fernseh-Fee" (i.e. some poor soul watches the TV program and pushes a
> button whenever the commercials start ;-) If I interpret
Uups - that's indeed not very faithful ...
> http://www.telecontrol.de/fee/Frequenzen.htm correctly, they are using radio
> frequencies of Deutschlandfunk and DeutschlandRadio to broadcast their data
> (as RDS signals?).
Poor technology - so nothing we can use in VDR !
> BTW, I wonder know how serious this offering is. The product description (a
> converted Powerpoint slideshow) uses every color you could imagine and the
> "suggested retail price is 299 DM to 400 DM depending on the dealer" 8-)
That's correct. But I was only interested in using the
commercial-cut and how it's done - NOT in such a product !
> > I think that the Fee uses EPG signals for most of its features.
Agreed
> The Fee seems to be an EPG and parental control set-top box for analog TV
> which doesn't have those features by itself.
Thanks for comments.
Ralf
>
> Regards,
> hh
>
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