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POST TIVO - Boat Anchor features?
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Posted by: JUICEBOX

helo!

With the talk of Replay closing its doors and a questionable future for TIVO, I was wondering if a "post-TIVO service" PDR would be capable of some of the features my inexpensive Toshiba VCR can do.

My toshiba VCR has Auto clock set getting the time from some channel

It also can display on screen the show title provided by many channels somewhere in the signal. Als the Netwrk i.e. HBO.

If the Tivo could read this data, even if Tivo closes it's doors, a manual record Tivo could snag the show's name and use it in the now playing list.

Just wondering what the more tech members think the posibility of these features are. I do remember a commercial for the shoew "ED" signaling my tivo that I should record it. So the Tivo has some ability to read the data in the Vertical blank? Am I correct?

Thanks

Jerry

Posted by: HTH

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Originally posted by JUICEBOX:
My toshiba VCR has Auto clock set getting the time from some channel

I have a VCR that can do that too. Unfortuantely, the channel that it gets the data from juggles their schedule around, which juggles the time data around as well, so I've found its clock off by as much as 2 hours. I switched it back to manual time setting.

As to the question, yes, theoretically the TiVo could get this and other data you describe from the VBI scanlines. Implementation of this by gifted consumers for the benefit of all though is quite unlikely unless upon closure of service TiVo discloses a public paper on everything inside the TiVo.

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