Of course you can use manual recordings, but for example:
CSI starts at 9:00pm and goes until 10:00pm on CBS
ER starts at 9:59pm and goes until 10:59pm on NBC
It is not possible for TiVo with standard season passes to resolve this conflict. It simply won't record one of the shows based on priority.
Futzing about with manual recordings (which only go to the nearest five minutes btw) is a workaround not a proper configuration.
What should happen is all of the highest priority show should record and you should have the option to record the second show if only X minutes have passed with X being defined by the viewer.
NBC starts some of their primetime shows 1 minute early now which steps all over PVR's trying to schedule shows before and after. I believe that Microsoft's implementation allows for 'soft' padding where the first early five minutes can be pre-empted by another requested show then switch on-time to the next show. I wish TiVo did this...
Andrew
I am an ex-broadcast engineer and can guarantee that they aren't using the guard bands between TV stations - because there are no guard bands! Each channel butts up next to the last one.
Interference is avoided by not assigning two adjacent channels in the same market.
Television channels are 6Mhz wide. A Wi-Fi signal occupies 30Mhz so I'm guessing they will need 7 channels in a row with nothing broadcast (5 for the spectrum needed with 1 on each side to avoid interference).
Interference avoidance is nothing new to broadcasters. Aside from television channels assigned they also have had to deal with microwave live trucks, satellite transmissions, etc.
According to the United Nations, current projections are for a peak of about 7.7 billion people (we have about 5.8 billion now) in 2040.
After that, if current trends continue (which include ever increasing industrialization of the world) the world population will start declining and by 2050 the population will ahve decreased by an estimated 85 million people.
Some estimates are more agressive than the U.N. saying that by 2025 we will be at stagnation.
This along with the ability to prolong life and the possiblity of fusion within 20 years leads me to believe we can be leading a much different life by the time I am 55.
We just have to hold off blowing up our planet for a half a century longer.
radvision only makes the gatekeeper and mcu stuff for videoconferences.
You would need Tandberg, Polycom, or another H.323 codec vendor to complete the picture.
Andrew
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Of course you can use manual recordings, but for example:
CSI starts at 9:00pm and goes until 10:00pm on CBS
ER starts at 9:59pm and goes until 10:59pm on NBC
It is not possible for TiVo with standard season passes to resolve this conflict. It simply won't record one of the shows based on priority.
Futzing about with manual recordings (which only go to the nearest five minutes btw) is a workaround not a proper configuration.
What should happen is all of the highest priority show should record and you should have the option to record the second show if only X minutes have passed with X being defined by the viewer.
Andrew
NBC starts some of their primetime shows 1 minute early now which steps all over PVR's trying to schedule shows before and after. I believe that Microsoft's implementation allows for 'soft' padding where the first early five minutes can be pre-empted by another requested show then switch on-time to the next show. I wish TiVo did this... Andrew
I am an ex-broadcast engineer and can guarantee that they aren't using the guard bands between TV stations - because there are no guard bands! Each channel butts up next to the last one.
Interference is avoided by not assigning two adjacent channels in the same market.
Television channels are 6Mhz wide. A Wi-Fi signal occupies 30Mhz so I'm guessing they will need 7 channels in a row with nothing broadcast (5 for the spectrum needed with 1 on each side to avoid interference).
Interference avoidance is nothing new to broadcasters. Aside from television channels assigned they also have had to deal with microwave live trucks, satellite transmissions, etc.
Andrew
According to the United Nations, current projections are for a peak of about 7.7 billion people (we have about 5.8 billion now) in 2040. After that, if current trends continue (which include ever increasing industrialization of the world) the world population will start declining and by 2050 the population will ahve decreased by an estimated 85 million people. Some estimates are more agressive than the U.N. saying that by 2025 we will be at stagnation. This along with the ability to prolong life and the possiblity of fusion within 20 years leads me to believe we can be leading a much different life by the time I am 55. We just have to hold off blowing up our planet for a half a century longer.
radvision only makes the gatekeeper and mcu stuff for videoconferences. You would need Tandberg, Polycom, or another H.323 codec vendor to complete the picture. Andrew
Of course Dell tried to outdo them by about 26,000 a few years later:
Dell Battery Recall
Andrew
Ride with the Devil was an engrossing film that almost no on saw. I really enjoyed it on DVD.