On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jon Delfin <[email protected]> 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 $#*! My Dad Says.
>
> Not that I was planning to.
>
> Still, I'm curious whether this is also the case with real TiVos and
> other such technologies.
>
> jd
>
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 list near "$99 Golf Driver" (dollar-sign
ninety-nine...). It sorts like this. Apostrophes first, then parentheses
("(500) Days of Summer"), then numbers in dumb-alphanumeric order (1, 10,
11, 12... 2, 20, 21, 22... etc.), and apparently last dollar signs. That
said, it does ignore words like "The" and "A", thus "The $25,000 Pyramid" is
listed at the end of the numeric/punctuation list.
This is a picture of how the DVR sorts punctuation and stuff on my end
(listed in the 0-9 section)...
http://twitpic.com/2h8qsn
> --
>
Wesley McGee
http://www.ambivi.com
http://sterlingnorth.vox.com
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