On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:10:04AM -0500, Dan Lanciani wrote:
> Rather than try to fix everything to deal with extra information that in
> many cases isn't even useful (would you really want to abort a recording
> even if the signal went away for a minute in the middle?) I would suggest
> simply making ATSC sources act more like NTSC sources.  If there is no
> signal, just create a stream of blank frames.  If you want to get fancy,
> cons up an MPEG-encoded display with your suggested text.  Although it
> seems a bit of a kludge, it does more closely match our intuitive notion
> of tuning a TV channel...

No, that is a kludge, and sounds like something for the driver to do,
not the receiving program.    I think it's better for the system to
truly understand what's going on, and handle it through a proper api.

Though it did let me write a good thread on the pchdtv message board.

"The sky was the colour of MythTV, tuned to a dead channel."
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