Actually the Freeview digital terrestrial tv service carries 16 radio channels already (including 10 BBC ones), and Tivo already knows the schedules. My Tivo records ancient comedies off BBC Radio 7 quite regularly, without being asked. The only problem is that it records at high quality when basic is perfectly adequate!
You're very wise not to pay attention to Dixon's salesdroids! Apart from anything else, I don't see Sky+ being able to record analogue and digital terrestrial broadcasts like Tivo does, in addition to Sky's transmission. Sky+ can only record off Sky - Tivo can record off any platform
I don't see why the service side of Tivo should be affected -- they're still adding support for the new model of Freeview set top boxes - I got the update to handle my Labgear DTT100 SetPal box only a couple of nights ago.
The big flap over "spamming" was because people got irate over the CONTENT of the show. Nobody whined about enhanced content for MONTHS, until they saw the one program they disliked, and then suddenly it's spam. Sorry, it isn't.
Err, no, you're wrong. The big flap about "spamming" was because that was the first (and so far only) time that this forced recording feature was used on UK Tivos -- we had no idea such a feature existed. If Tivo had warned us in advance what was going to happen and that it used reserved space on the disc, then there wouldn't have been much of a reaction; as it was, it came out of the blue and upset everyone. Apart from the fact that we couldn't get rid of the damn thing from the top menu of our Tivo (without going through back doors), the whole thing was pointless because the BBC's timekeeping is such that the last 3 minutes of the programme was cut off, anyway!
I already _have_ blacklisted the entire.cn domain, plus.hk,.tw, and.kr, plus every.com and.net I've been able to identify in China..ar and.br are currently on probation. I don't know anyone in those countries who would have a reason to communicate with me, and life's just too short to waste on spam - I'm getting around 150 spams a day at the moment, and my filters are still only catching around 75% of them...
Before the Thames Barrier was built, which should keep the system dry now, stations which were prone to flooding had/have gates to keep the water out -- one that comes to mind is in the Northern Line corridor before you get to the bottom of the escalator when you leave Charing Cross station.
Of course, if they forget to close the gates in time, then it's not very good! Last August they tried to keep the Prague Metro running too long and didn't push the button to seal the tunnels until too late, which is why quite a lot of the network is still out of serice (and a lot of the stations were flooded right to the top of their entrance staircases!). That was just incompetence, as the Prague Metro was built from the beginning as a nuclear shelter and had automated flood gates.
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Remind him he's up for re-election next May.
Actually the Freeview digital terrestrial tv service carries 16 radio channels already (including 10 BBC ones), and Tivo already knows the schedules. My Tivo records ancient comedies off BBC Radio 7 quite regularly, without being asked. The only problem is that it records at high quality when basic is perfectly adequate!
I've not seen it mentioned in the thread, but the tax on vegetable oil to make it legal when used as road fuel is 26 pence a litre.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
You're very wise not to pay attention to Dixon's salesdroids! Apart from anything else, I don't see Sky+ being able to record analogue and digital terrestrial broadcasts like Tivo does, in addition to Sky's transmission. Sky+ can only record off Sky - Tivo can record off any platform
I don't see why the service side of Tivo should be affected -- they're still adding support for the new model of Freeview set top boxes - I got the update to handle my Labgear DTT100 SetPal box only a couple of nights ago.
The big flap over "spamming" was because people got irate over the CONTENT of the show. Nobody whined about enhanced content for MONTHS, until they saw the one program they disliked, and then suddenly it's spam. Sorry, it isn't.
Err, no, you're wrong. The big flap about "spamming" was because that was the first (and so far only) time that this forced recording feature was used on UK Tivos -- we had no idea such a feature existed. If Tivo had warned us in advance what was going to happen and that it used reserved space on the disc, then there wouldn't have been much of a reaction; as it was, it came out of the blue and upset everyone. Apart from the fact that we couldn't get rid of the damn thing from the top menu of our Tivo (without going through back doors), the whole thing was pointless because the BBC's timekeeping is such that the last 3 minutes of the programme was cut off, anyway!
I already _have_ blacklisted the entire .cn domain, plus .hk, .tw, and .kr, plus every .com and .net I've been able to identify in China. .ar and .br are currently on probation. I don't know anyone in those countries who would have a reason to communicate with me, and life's just too short to waste on spam - I'm getting around 150 spams a day at the moment, and my filters are still only catching around 75% of them...
Before the Thames Barrier was built, which should keep the system dry now, stations which were prone to flooding had/have gates to keep the water out -- one that comes to mind is in the Northern Line corridor before you get to the bottom of the escalator when you leave Charing Cross station.
Of course, if they forget to close the gates in time, then it's not very good! Last August they tried to keep the Prague Metro running too long and didn't push the button to seal the tunnels until too late, which is why quite a lot of the network is still out of serice (and a lot of the stations were flooded right to the top of their entrance staircases!). That was just incompetence, as the Prague Metro was built from the beginning as a nuclear shelter and had automated flood gates.