Once upon a time Mo Mo shaped the electrons to say...
> lol.  Yeah that's what I said!

Not really, you said:
>   > The commercials that tivo often has on the box like the ones they
>   > have had in the past for Chevrolet are an example of data that can
>   > be obtained from this Service Data Download.

And that is incorrect.

Service Data Download is a very specific thing.  The commercials, etc,
are *not* Service Data Downloads.  They also use a broadcast on
Discovery, and some of the same mechanisms, but they are very
different things to the TiVo.  The unit also behaves differently at
the time.  During a promo download you can watch the broadcast, and
you'll see all the video clips coming down one after the other.
During an SDD the TiVo will not allow you to go to LiveTV, instead you
get a screen telling you a download is taking place.  If you tune one
in without a TiVo you get a screen full of black and white bars
shifting around - which is data encoded as a visual signal.

Which is why you can receive promos, etc, but that doesn't change the
date for the last SDD.  There have been a number of promos since early
December when the last SDD came down.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762
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