Tuning into TBS a few minutes before Conan tonight, I noticed that the episode
included audio description, and I hadn't turned that setting on. It was not in
tonight's Conan episode.
Did anyone else have this happen? Not sure if this was a local cable issue or
something at the TBS end of
Last night, I was recording the rebroadcast of Sunday's Masterpiece
Mystery!. I see today that the recording was cut short, thanks to Time
Warner downloading a software upgrade to the DVR (which then reboots
and shuts off the box).
General question for those who grok coding: Is it a big deal to
Short answer: no, it really shouldn't be.
Sarcastic answer: Gah! Who do you think you are, the client?
On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
Last night, I was recording the rebroadcast of Sunday's Masterpiece
Mystery!. I see today that the recording was cut short,
My DVR (Scientific Atlanta, running Time Warner's crappy software) can
search for a program or movie only by its title. The search screen
contains letters and numbers, and that's it.
So it will be impossible to search for $#*! My Dad Says.
Not that I was planning to.
Still, I'm curious whether
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
My DVR (Scientific Atlanta, running Time Warner's crappy software) can
search for a program or movie only by its title. The search screen
contains letters and numbers, and that's it.
So it will be impossible to search for
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
So it will be impossible to search for $#*! My Dad Says.
Judging from what I've seen fed thus far, I dare say this specific problem
may only last three or four weeks.
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TV or
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
My DVR (Scientific Atlanta, running Time Warner's crappy software) can
search for a program or movie only by its title. The search screen
contains letters and numbers, and that's it.
So it will be impossible to search
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:12 PM, I wrote:
Are you absolutely sure? Even though it's not listed, my DVR -- also an
Scientific Atlanta -- sorts the titles with punctuation with the numbers,
and I don't believe it is a case of it ignoring the punctuation as '90s
(apostrophe-nineties) does not
Last note -- with my DVR (whose software is the generic Explorer something
or other), there is no search function... so the best i can do is pull up
the list titles alphabetically and scroll... so you can see I don't
search out programs like that often.
Which is why I'm itching for the day to
Are all HD broadcasts created equal? I now have two Scientific Atlanta
8300 HD DVRs (having dumped the buggy Samsung, which somehow ran Time
Warner's inadequate Navigator/Mystro software even worse than the SA),
and I notice that comparable libraries of recorded hours don't show as
equivalent
I am not familiar with TW devices (other than the myriad of complaints I
have heard about their service/equipment). But, all digital signals are not
created equal. Different resolutions will have different storage
requirements. 1080i requires more than 720p. CBS and NBC are 1080i, FOX
and ABC
On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:19 PM, jeffrey marousek wrote:
I am not familiar with TW devices (other than the myriad of complaints I have
heard about their service/equipment). But, all digital signals are not
created equal. Different resolutions will have different storage
requirements. 1080i
unless the facility is using stat-mux's, 1080i is encoded at 15mbps and 720p
at 8-10mbps. those 2 numbers are rarely interfered with. the sub-channels
run at 1-3 mbps usually in an sd application.
there are exceptions to that rule. I have seen 2 1080i's muxed together,
but it looks like crap.
jeffrey - on behalf of all engineers on the list, let me say Welcome to
the list :-)
(I generally understood most of what you wrote - and I haven't even
googled yet )
On 1/27/10 4:14 PM, jeffrey marousek wrote:
unless the facility is using stat-mux's, 1080i is encoded at 15mbps
and 720p
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Doug Eastick east...@mcd.on.ca wrote:
jeffrey - on behalf of all engineers on the list, let me say Welcome to
the list :-)
(I generally understood most of what you wrote - and I haven't even googled
yet )
I also appreciate his expertise and gracious
i apologize...my head is in the clouds high on chantix (only took 2 days of
not smoking before everyone at work knew to stay away from my shop).
i am known for getting way too wordy and stuff :P
Jeff
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:13
They are used to wordy Marouseks in this list
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:43 PM, jeffrey marousek
jeff.marou...@gmail.com wrote:
i apologize...my head is in the clouds high on chantix (only took 2 days of
not smoking before everyone at work knew to stay away from my shop).
i am known for
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
They are used to wordy Marouseks in this list
That's what I was going to say.
But no, I was just teasing - I think it is cool to have a TV engineer on the
list and I appreciate all the input, technical and otherwise.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:19 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.comwrote:
They are used to wordy Marouseks in this list
That's what I was going to say.
But no, I was just teasing - I think it is cool to have a TV engineer on
Kevin - that's the nice thing to say. I was really expecting something
more hilarious, but lets just keep this nice and wholesome with an aw
shucks feeling for now.
On 1/27/10 8:45 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
They are used to wordy Marouseks in this list
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:43 PM, jeffrey
My standard-def DVR is hooked up to its television with a standard
length of coaxial cable. The television itself is plugged into a wall
socket, not the courtesy outlet on the back of the DVR.
So how does the DVR know when the television is on? The DVR's power is
always on. When it was running
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
So how does the DVR know when the television is on? The DVR's power is
always on. When it was running Passport OS, both the foreground and
background tuners maintained an hour's worth of buffer. Now, with
Navigator OS, when
On Dec 1, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
So how does the DVR know when the television is on? The DVR's power is
always on. When it was running Passport OS, both the foreground and
background tuners maintained an hour's
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote:
Jon: Are you saying that you'll turn on the TV and both buffers will be
empty, but then after you start actively watching (e.g., switching live TV
to a different channel, or playing back a recorded program), you'll
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Jon Delfin wrote:
I was wondering about what Kevin said about the VCR knowing a
protected DVD shouldn't be copied. Isn't that because the DVD has a
code included in its audio or video signal? So it's not that the VCR
is reaching out to the DVD player, but that the
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote:
On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Jon Delfin wrote:
I was wondering about what Kevin said about the VCR knowing a
protected DVD shouldn't be copied. Isn't that because the DVD has a
code included in its audio or video
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