I think it does. I always pad, and on a couple rare occasions of an overlap, the later show was recorded with a minute chopped off the beginning, so I think it's in there from version 3 of the software and after.
Just pad your recordings. I did this back in the dark ages of using VCRs and still do with Tivo. The networks can only push start/end times so far out of tolerance before they even start to annoy the Neandethals who still watch TV live.
If you start having overlaps, you're watching too much TV.
You're missing the bigger issue: the demodulation and decoding circuits themselves.
I think state of the art is to have one RF demod and a decoder on one chip. Even if you could jam 10 demod/decoders on a chip, you'll need more than 50 chips drawing God knows how much current. You'd be advised to have the electric company just drop another service line right down to your home theater.
Well I'll be raising the threat matrix level at my house to red, that's for sure! While they are at it, maybe they can make all my junk mail accidently go to my neighbor's house.
Fine, I'll start getting everything from Netflix or similar services. Then I won't see ANY of the networks' precious commercials EVER.
Television is not an essential utility. I'd rather wander aimlessly around GTA:San Andreas than watch most of what's on TeeVee these days. At least I can shoot the annoying people in GTA, and pimp some hos when murderous rampages grow tiring. Or I could get back into programming shareware.
And these days every series is put on DVD. Even Firefly, which ran for, like, seven and a half seconds on TV can be seen on DVD. I'm close to dropping Showtime and HBO and just waiting for the next seasons of Dead Like Me and Sopranos to get to DVD. I can rent those from Netflix along with most movies, and make my own copies while I'm at it.
I pad everything two minutes on my Tivo anyway, so, no biggie in the end. And I just don't watch enough to encounter overlaps with two tuners.
Not that there's anything wrong with this; the world needs plumbers and electricians (and computer programmers)
Ooooo! Cliff, you have been served!
A good university will teach computer science, and expect you to work out how to write code on your own; a bad university will teach you how to program, and not even admit that there is anything more to learn.
Well, in a better constructed reality, a good university would teach *both*. I taught myself to program when I was in my teens (Atari BASIC!), but I could have saved some grief early on by taking at least one course. They didn't teach programming in Junior High back then, though.
I turned down the opportunity to take Six Sigma training.
We weren't given the choice.:-(
So now I have to apply methods that were developed for the prodcution of millions of commodity items to my R&D development of unique and singular prototypes. Hah?
Does this mean people will have to upgrade their current DVD players/drives to use this new DVD technology?
Sure. It'll just be a firmware patch automatically downloaded to your DVD player through the, um, power cord by, um, the Department Of... uh... The Interior.
Duration: [in years]: seems like a thousand centuries ago...
Supplier: Tog
Alias: "I have no concept of the difference between objective and subjective usability complaints."
Product: Tog's parents.
Bug: Tog's perceptual abilities.
Class of error: Intellectualy density.
Principle: "My opinions are holy."
Proposed Fix: Zoloft
Discussion: Some of the things he lists as flaws in the Dock are things that I acutally like about the Dock. It's a very subjective thing. Some of the things he laments losing from Mac OS 9 were not the bee's knees he seems to imagine they were. He was just used to them, is all.
Bug first observed: Can't check the date on the original Dock whinefest because his site is slashdotted. It happened some time after Tog ceased to be relevant.
Observer: Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
Bug reported to supplier: No. No point. You cannot argue with self-proclaimed learned wisemen.
We were all supposed to be videoconferencing left and right by now, with holographic communications just around the corner.
These are the same sanke-oil futurists that once told us we'd have flying cars, fully automated homes, vacations in space, sexbots and televised death sports.
OK, maybe only Norman Jewison predicted televised death sports, but you get my point. They would righteously rock, though. Especially watching televised death sports while fucking my sexbot in my flying car.
I have not has a sales call since I signed up. The gummint actually made something that's working! Do not tamper with this! FUCK TELEMARKETERS! FUCK THEM IN THE ASS!!!!
And the control wheel is frickin genius. It's perfect for the one dimensional navigation of the iPod. The Intellivision was a cheap mushy disc totally unsuited to the two dimensional control of a game system.
How can tape ever match the random access capabilities of HD based machines? If all you want to do is sit and just watch complete movies from beginning to end, I suppose that's OK, but it sounds so limited.
For those of you old enough to recall saving your computer files to tape and then transitioning to using a disc, it's that big a deal. I can't imagine going back to rewinding or FF-ing tape to get to the show I want to watch.
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I used "dihydrogen monoxide" because of the well known activist article parody.
If you are going to make snarky comments, at least get them right.
If you are going to correct trivial quips on message boards, at least understand the context, you stunningly vast ass.
Wow. Thanks for that obscure factoid, Sparky. Pesticides kill things. Huh. Who knew?
I'm sure there's a clever comment to be had here about floods and dihydrogen monoxide here, but I'm far too weary.
I think it does. I always pad, and on a couple rare occasions of an overlap, the later show was recorded with a minute chopped off the beginning, so I think it's in there from version 3 of the software and after.
If you start having overlaps, you're watching too much TV.
I think state of the art is to have one RF demod and a decoder on one chip. Even if you could jam 10 demod/decoders on a chip, you'll need more than 50 chips drawing God knows how much current. You'd be advised to have the electric company just drop another service line right down to your home theater.
Well I'll be raising the threat matrix level at my house to red, that's for sure! While they are at it, maybe they can make all my junk mail accidently go to my neighbor's house.
Fine, I'll start getting everything from Netflix or similar services. Then I won't see ANY of the networks' precious commercials EVER.
Television is not an essential utility. I'd rather wander aimlessly around GTA:San Andreas than watch most of what's on TeeVee these days. At least I can shoot the annoying people in GTA, and pimp some hos when murderous rampages grow tiring. Or I could get back into programming shareware.
And these days every series is put on DVD. Even Firefly, which ran for, like, seven and a half seconds on TV can be seen on DVD. I'm close to dropping Showtime and HBO and just waiting for the next seasons of Dead Like Me and Sopranos to get to DVD. I can rent those from Netflix along with most movies, and make my own copies while I'm at it.
I pad everything two minutes on my Tivo anyway, so, no biggie in the end. And I just don't watch enough to encounter overlaps with two tuners.
Ooooo! Cliff, you have been served!
A good university will teach computer science, and expect you to work out how to write code on your own; a bad university will teach you how to program, and not even admit that there is anything more to learn.
Well, in a better constructed reality, a good university would teach *both*. I taught myself to program when I was in my teens (Atari BASIC!), but I could have saved some grief early on by taking at least one course. They didn't teach programming in Junior High back then, though.
How about fluffers for gay pr0n films.
Wheel chocks for commercial airliners.
Target practice.
Eh, that's all I got...
Umm.... OK.
So should I open up a new category for you? 'Cause I wasn't really arguing any side, and, um... (Harvey begins to back away slowly).
Personally, I support using any stem cells the researchers can get their hands on. Hoover the things out starving orpahns for all I care.
We weren't given the choice. :-(
So now I have to apply methods that were developed for the prodcution of millions of commodity items to my R&D development of unique and singular prototypes. Hah?
I am in Hell.
[voice=dr.evil]Does he have fricken' lasers on him? How can he be a future child without fricken' lasers?[/voice]
If you have had Six Sigma traning, then you are definitely baffled about what it is.
I started at that for a full twenty seconds thinking, "What the hell kind of crypto is involved with cascading stylesheets?"
By the time this format is the standard, your kid will be, like, twelve or something. :)
Sure. It'll just be a firmware patch automatically downloaded to your DVD player through the, um, power cord by, um, the Department Of... uh... The Interior.
Duration: [in years]: seems like a thousand centuries ago...
Supplier: Tog
Alias: "I have no concept of the difference between objective and subjective usability complaints."
Product: Tog's parents.
Bug: Tog's perceptual abilities.
Class of error: Intellectualy density.
Principle: "My opinions are holy."
Proposed Fix: Zoloft
Discussion: Some of the things he lists as flaws in the Dock are things that I acutally like about the Dock. It's a very subjective thing. Some of the things he laments losing from Mac OS 9 were not the bee's knees he seems to imagine they were. He was just used to them, is all.
Bug first observed: Can't check the date on the original Dock whinefest because his site is slashdotted. It happened some time after Tog ceased to be relevant.
Observer: Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law
Bug reported to supplier: No. No point. You cannot argue with self-proclaimed learned wisemen.
Bug on list since: Whinefest first published.
- "Uh, this is the sort of stem cells the Bush Administration supports, you ignorant dumbass." --- 25%
- "Well, yeah, but, Dumbya cut funding! And this is you: duh doo duh doo duh doo" --- 25%
- "Uh, Bush was the first to federally fund ANY stem cell research. And this is you: bibblebibblebibble pppbbbffffttttt!" --- 25%
And then the same people wonder why nothing works right anymore.
These are the same sanke-oil futurists that once told us we'd have flying cars, fully automated homes, vacations in space, sexbots and televised death sports.
OK, maybe only Norman Jewison predicted televised death sports, but you get my point. They would righteously rock, though. Especially watching televised death sports while fucking my sexbot in my flying car.
Get moving, boys. We're wating for our sexbots.
Yeah. Why the Hell would Turkey want to do that?!?! Are they crazy? ;-)
I hope these calm words will help.
Well, yeah, but pffft! Only godless Communists play video bowling anymore. Who cares about them?
Yeah, but that's a good thing these days.
And the control wheel is frickin genius. It's perfect for the one dimensional navigation of the iPod. The Intellivision was a cheap mushy disc totally unsuited to the two dimensional control of a game system.
For those of you old enough to recall saving your computer files to tape and then transitioning to using a disc, it's that big a deal. I can't imagine going back to rewinding or FF-ing tape to get to the show I want to watch.
The old Savage Sword Of Conan worked great in B&W.