arthurvasey
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« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2009, 03:12:57 PM » |
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It would largely depend what you want to listen to - something topical, like the news, or something like a Presidential election or the UK elections or a phone-in or if you needed to text or incorporate messages or live emails, would need to be live - whereas something like a drama or a comedy or a play or an entertainment show or a soap, you can watch almost any time.
You can often find yourself missing a good movie or the latest goings-on in your favourite soap opera or a serial you have been following, for one or more of the following reasons:
You forget it's on;
It's on when you're out and you can't work the timer on the video;
You set the timer - but it fails to record;
You set the timer - but it either misses the beginning or cuts off the end - in extreme cases, both;
'You live in a shared house - the only video in the house belongs either to one of the tenants (not you), or the landlord/landlady, if they live on site, and it's not to be used for recording telly programmes - even if you do try to set the timer, the video owner will stop it, so you still miss it;
Even if you are in to see it, and you live in a shared house, you may still not get to see it, either due to the landlord (the decision maker) not liking the programme - if s/he doesn't like it, any chance of seeing it is blocked - even on YOUR telly! Even if choice of programme is determined by a majority vote, you will be the minority, so your programme still won't get a look-in!
Or else there's no staff - but one tenant there whose status is the same as everybody else - s/he pays identical rent and has the same privileges - but likes to behave like a playground bully and thinks s/he is above the law and can come into the TV room, having been out and thinks s/he can just change the channel to the one s/he likes without consulting the rest of the tenants first, irrespective of the fact that the TV is what Judge Judy Sheindlin would call "community property", or that it belongs to another tenant, because either there is no household telly or the household telly is bust and awaiting repair - a tenant (not the bully) has loaned theirs pro tem - anybody who challenges the playground bully's self-imposed authority could end up in the A & E department of the local hospital.
A bloke I knew tried to record the film Angela's Ashes from one of the Sky Box Office channels - he made at least two abortive attempts.
The first time, he put it on a tape - played the tape back - but it went funny after a while. Thinking it was the tape, he recorded something else on it - that played fine. Next time the film was on, he tried another tape anyway - that played back funny, so he recorded something else, which played fine. After several more failed attempts, he called out a Sky repairman. The Sky repairman asked him what he was trying to record.
"Angela's Ashes on Sky Box Office".
"No wonder", said the repairman. "You can't record from Sky Box Office - everything has copyright protection on it - if you try to record films, football or the boxing match, the protection kicks in and corrupts the video!".
These days, you can almost never miss a favourite show - with Sky, there's Sky Plus - my Freeview box records stuff on its hard drive and I can even record full series - even repeat screenings, if it misses it.
I live on my own these days - so I have nobody dictating to me what I can and cannot watch!
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