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Marc Edwards [Visitor] in response to: Nine gets boned by IceTV

Marc Edwards [Visitor] — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:44:39 +0000

"An electronic program guide is no better than a printed one and a digital recorder can not be any more accurate in recording time than a VCR."

Not so. An electronic TV guide can record easier (ie. one click), record every episode of your favourite show and is searchable in the way Google is (ie. type in program names, search for genres, or just see all the movies for the week). Those things can't be done with a paper guide.

As for accuracy, almost all PVRs or media centers have "padding"--they automatically add a set amount of time to the start and end of the recording. So even Big Brother going 55 mins overtime wouldn't stop you from recording Torchwood, if you had things set up the right way.

I have my media center set to record 3 mins before and 30 mins after. That wouldn't have been sufficient for the extreme Torchwood case, but I've never missed anything else (I didn't attempt to record Torchwood btw!).

Jas [Visitor] in response to: Nine gets boned by IceTV

Jas [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:24:34 +0000

"You can lock that in, Eddie."

Eddie Everywhere's no longer the head of Nine - sorry guys!

Watcher [Visitor] in response to: Nine gets boned by IceTV

Watcher [Visitor] — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:01:01 +0000

How stupid are you people? Of course there are program guides that include Nine. An electronic program guide is no better than a printed one and a digital recorder can not be any more accurate in recording time than a VCR.
Hydrapinion are having you people on.

Michael [Visitor] in response to: Nine gets boned by IceTV

Michael [Visitor] — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:55:17 +0000

Oddly enough, with no programming guide for Nine, you can't find out what few programmes (if any) are ever worth watching on that channel - so I never watch it anyway. Every other channel, including ABC at least has guide channels now on digital TV.