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On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:26:24 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

> What annoys me a lot is with On Demand with Directv if you happen to reverse
> to check something you might have missed, they won't let you FF from there
> to where you were either.

They're all different. DD has Directv and it has as many annoyances
as Comcast. Comcast just lets you back up to the beginning of
whatever show is on, Directv lets you back up to the spot where to
started watching that particular channel. I do like being able to
press the "live" button on Comcast and having it jump ahead over all
the commercials to what's showing right now.


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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 4/13/2014 10:32 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>
>>>> There's always On Demand. The problem with that is no fast forwarding
>>>> through commercials... which is the case with Comcast.
>>>
>>> Really, is that something new? I have had Directv for almost 2 years
>>> before which I had Comcast. I could always FF through most shows with
>>> commericals, except Fox and ABC I believe it was. Not a good thing if
>>> they changed that.
>>
>> When I had Comcast, On Demand was so slow to load I never watched
>> it. But with Fios, no, you can't ff through commercials. Same if
>> you watch something online.
>>
> I do know about the slow to load. I have gotten into it accidentally a
> few times. And then I can't get back out until it has loaded. PITA!
>
>>> I had to laugh when the CEO of Directv said "we have
>>> the technology/software for FF with On Demand, but we don't think the
>>> customers care about that. Yeah, right!
>>
>> Suuurre. Then they play the same two commercials 4 times.
>>
>> I understand that commercials pay for the shows, but how many times
>> do I have to watch the same ones on every show.
>
> The one hospital I was in had Direct TV. I hated it! Some of the shows
> that I normally watch were on at odd times. I think they used East Coast
> times.

They're really not supposed to give East Coast feeds for the West Coast due
to commercials are supposed to be local. In the old days of early Directv,
back when you had to buy the expensive equipment and owned it, you could get
both feeds and I loved it, but you couldn't get local stations without
another set up by comcast. I kept that for about 2 years and then dropped it
when they had to stop the East Coast feeds, blacking out the LA channels for
news etc.

Cheri

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"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 4/13/2014 9:57 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> That's a great feature. It's annoying that I can only record two
>>> shows at a time. Most of the time not a problem but there's always
>>> that one night when a bunch of shows conflict.
>>
>> Do you two watch the recorded shows later though? Back in the days of
>> my VCR, I would often record shows but then never watch them. I was
>> constantly recording over recorded shows that I never watched.
>
> Those bleeping VCR tapes, if you could find the one with your show,
> good like finding the beginning if you had more than one show, then
> you find you ran out of tape or you accidentally recorded over
> something else.
>
> DVR is nothing like that. Yes, most of the time I watch the shows
> I record, only in a blue moon do I just erase them. Otherwise they
> sit there, all indexed and waiting for me. The day I got a load of
> DVRs, I never looked back.

The only thing I object to with DVR's is not being able to go to the store
and buy one. You have to pay a monthly fee for the use of it, where with the
VCR you didn't, they became very cheap and easily replaced. You could also
record PPV movies and such with the VCR after you had rented them from
Directv, now they just erase stuff. :-)

Cheri

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On 2014-04-13, jmcquown > wrote:

> Don't forget the test pattern! Even when I was a teenager (no cable in

Kids. tsk tsk.... ;)

We had our first TV by '52. Biggest of its day, despite being called
a portable. Musta been 24+" and sat on a swivel stand. Probably
weighed about 40-50 lbs including its wood cabinet. I remember the TV
repairman hadda come out about once a yr to replace a burnt out tube.

> My parents had a console in the early 1960's. It had a record player at
> one end and a black & white TV at the other.

By '62, my step father was DIY'ing a Heathkit color TV. Got it all
assembled, but it didn't work right. A couple days in the repair shop
fixed that and we had glorious color.

We never did have a console system. While my mom was divorced, she
dated a musician who had a combo hifi/music store. He warned her
against consoles and turned her onto stereo components. We had one of
the first stereo component (separate trntbl, tuner, amp, spkrs)
systems in town. You know, the rig we all bought off the shelf by the
late 60s early 70s. Her's was in about '55 and the tube amp was a kit
and the spkrs homemade cabs. It rocked before ppl knew what rockin'
was.

OH!.... my brother did buy an old used console for $40 in '75. The TV
was dead, but the stereo flat smoked. I remember the night he brought
it home. We fired it up and rocked to Led Zep full blast all night
long. Ahh, youth. ;)

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"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> On 4/13/2014 10:12 AM, The Cook wrote:
>> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:21:40 -0400, Nancy Young
>> > wrote:
>
>>> That's a great feature. It's annoying that I can only record two
>>> shows at a time. Most of the time not a problem but there's always
>>> that one night when a bunch of shows conflict.
>
>> As far as I know, I can only record one at a time. I can watch one
>> and record another. So if there are two I want to record I do one at
>> the earlier time and the other in the middle of the night when it is
>> repeated.
>
> That's really helpful, I record a lot of stuff in the middle of
> the night.
>
> You can record two things at a time, but you can't watch a third show
> live at the same time. That's because it's recording the live show
> while you're watching it, and that counts as 1 of 2 shows you can
> record at the same time.
>
> How badly did I mangle that explanation. Heh.
>
> nancy

I see what you mean. Usually when I am recording two shows at once, I will
watch something on my playlist, but I do have 2 TV's side by side, so I can
always watch the other TV live while two shows are recording on the other
one. We do the double TV for sports. Luckily, the Directv installer set up
some kind of RF remote for one, and another for the other one, they look the
same but one remote doesn't control both TV's. Oh, the decisions we have to
make. ;-)

Cheri

Cheri

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"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:13:40 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
>
>> On 4/13/2014 10:13 AM, sf wrote:
>> > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:21:40 -0400, Nancy Young
>> > > wrote:
>>
>> >> That's a great feature. It's annoying that I can only record two
>> >> shows at a time. Most of the time not a problem but there's always
>> >> that one night when a bunch of shows conflict.
>> >>
>> > There's always On Demand. The problem with that is no fast forwarding
>> > through commercials... which is the case with Comcast.
>>
>> Yes, Fios has a great number of shows On Demand, too. Also you can
>> find a lot of shows online.
>>
> I've never enjoyed watching television shows on my computer, so that
> is one case where using a Chromecast dongle to stream them on the TV
> would work for me.

Me either, I have watched a couple, but I hate sitting at my computer trying
to watch a show. I am very interested in streaming, but don't know the ins
and outs of it so keep putting it off.

Cheri

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On 4/13/2014 10:29 AM, Cheri wrote:
>


>
> With a DVR? I don't know of any that just let you record one show while
> watching another, or do you have a VCR?
>
> Cheri

My cable DVR and first DirecTv had two tuners. You could record two at
a time, but you had to either watch one previously recorded or one that
was being recorded.

The new Genie has 5 tuners!

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On 4/13/2014 12:52 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 09:21:40 -0400, Nancy Young

>> That's a great feature. It's annoying that I can only record two
>> shows at a time. Most of the time not a problem but there's always
>> that one night when a bunch of shows conflict.
>>

> But how do you find time to watch them all, you don't do anything
> else, not even sleep?

I don't work, even if I spent 10 hours a day walking, gardening,
reading, going to some show or whatever, I could still watch tv for some
7 hours. Not a big deal.

nancy

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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 4/13/2014 12:19 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> And between 11:30 PM and 6:00 AM all you could watch was a pattern and
>> hear it buzzzzzz.
>
> Don't forget the test pattern! Even when I was a teenager (no cable in
> our area) the stations went off the air at midnight. In the US they'd
> play the Star Spangled Banner then, gone until the next morning.
>
>> Our first TV was in 1948, an 11" Dumont in a nice
>> furniture console, they were very expensive, probably well over $500.
>> Looked something like this:
>> http://www.antiqueradio.org/art/DuMo...shedMedium.jpg
>>
> My parents had a console in the early 1960's. It had a record player at
> one end and a black & white TV at the other.
>
> Jill

Where I am they always did this, I loved it, still do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuIic17ijP8

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On 4/13/2014 9:57 AM, Gary wrote:

> Do you two watch the recorded shows later though? Back in the days of
> my VCR, I would often record shows but then never watch them. I was
> constantly recording over recorded shows that I never watched. I
> prefer realtime tv now
>
> I would like to record a few cooking shows on Saturday mornings though
> that I love but never have time to watch that early on Saturdays. I'm
> talking about the two shows featuring that nice fellow that always
> wear a bow tie. Cook's County, I think and another one that's pretty
> much the same.
>
> G.
>

I did the same with the VCR, but the DVR is different. About the only
thing I watch in real time is the 6 o'clock news and even that with a
delay if it is dinner time.

With the DVR you can watch, stop, watch another show (live or recorded)
later resume the first at the same place. Much more versatile and no
rewinding. Quick access, no hunting for a tape. You can set a series
recording so you never miss your favorites.

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On 4/13/2014 1:59 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 4/13/2014 12:19 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>
>>> And between 11:30 PM and 6:00 AM all you could watch was a pattern and
>>> hear it buzzzzzz.
>>
>> Don't forget the test pattern! Even when I was a teenager (no cable
>> in our area) the stations went off the air at midnight. In the US
>> they'd play the Star Spangled Banner then, gone until the next morning.
>>
>>> Our first TV was in 1948, an 11" Dumont in a nice
>>> furniture console, they were very expensive, probably well over $500.
>>> Looked something like this:
>>> http://www.antiqueradio.org/art/DuMo...shedMedium.jpg
>>>
>> My parents had a console in the early 1960's. It had a record player
>> at one end and a black & white TV at the other.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Where I am they always did this, I loved it, still do.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuIic17ijP8

I remember a PSA was always shown late night. The Crying Indian. It
was mostly about littering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Suu84khNGY

I wonder if we all wrote to them now at that address if there would be a
reply? LOL Write to Box 771 Radio City Station, New York to find out. ;)

A little thread drift here. Most people in this area don't toss stuff
out the car window. I'm not talking about Dataw, I'm talking about the
general area. I rarely see bags or drink cups from fast food places
tossed by the roadside. Not much littering going on. That's a good
thing. :)

Jill

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On 4/13/2014 1:28 PM, Cheri wrote:
>
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 4/13/2014 10:32 AM, Cheri wrote:
>>>
>>> "sf" > wrote in message
>>
>>>> There's always On Demand. The problem with that is no fast forwarding
>>>> through commercials... which is the case with Comcast.
>>>
>>> Really, is that something new? I have had Directv for almost 2 years
>>> before which I had Comcast. I could always FF through most shows with
>>> commericals, except Fox and ABC I believe it was. Not a good thing if
>>> they changed that.
>>
>> When I had Comcast, On Demand was so slow to load I never watched
>> it. But with Fios, no, you can't ff through commercials. Same if
>> you watch something online.
>
> When I had Comcast, I didn't have a DVR, just went to the On Demand
> feature

Really. Like Julie, heaven forbid you accidentally hit that
button, you were stuck waiting before you could back out of it.
After getting Fios, I never even looked at On Demand until quite
recently. Much easier to access than Comcast was. Don't know if
it's still the case today. We dropped them when they rolled out
a very buggy XFinity on us.

> and watched whatever I wanted to from there, no downloading or
> anything, but I think they've changed some, since my friend told me they
> are now charging for watching a series like Mad Men, where before you
> could watch as many as you wanted and lots of free movies. Always
> something raising the prices too.

They're all the same in that regard.

nancy

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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> On 4/13/2014 1:59 PM, Cheri wrote:

>> Where I am they always did this, I loved it, still do.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuIic17ijP8
>
> I remember a PSA was always shown late night. The Crying Indian. It was
> mostly about littering.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Suu84khNGY

I remember that too. :-)

Cheri

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On 4/13/2014 9:19 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
> On 4/13/2014 7:28 AM, S Viemeister wrote:

>> and 5 was the Dumont channel.
>
> That name doesn't ring a bell, but that doesn't mean much.
>
It started out as WABD, (for Allen B Dumont), then became WNEW, and I
believe it's WNYW now.

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On 4/13/2014 1:41 PM, notbob wrote:

> By '62, my step father was DIY'ing a Heathkit color TV. Got it all
> assembled, but it didn't work right. A couple days in the repair shop
> fixed that and we had glorious color.
>
I built that kit, too! It had a motorised remote control (which my Dad
had custody of, naturally).
It worked perfectly (but I wasn't a novice at electronics).

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On 2014-04-13, S Viemeister > wrote:

> It worked perfectly (but I wasn't a novice at electronics).

Yeah. My step-father knew nothing about electronics. That he got it
as close as he did was a testament to his tenacity more than his
knowledge. He was only a couple cold solders and reversed diodes from
success. The repair shop corrected the mistakes with little effort.
;)

nb