Happy Mother’s Day!

Oh, you have satellite tv? Let’s see what’s on…
Channel 113, 114, 115, 116, 116West, …
The 19ft 📡 in backyard: wrrrrrrr rrrr…
…117, 118…

Some VCR popular brands had the TV Guide™ feature. In the TV Guide little magazine near the checkout counter you lookup the show on a chart. And if it had a 5 or 6 digit number in bold next to it – punch that into the VCR. And it’ll program it to record it.

This technology partnership failed because it required people to have properly set the clock beforehand. If one could do that troddening thru the menus or instruction manual, then they probably won’t need to buy the magazine.

This is interesting. I use OTA antenna tv everyday, almost exclusively. I almost forgot OTA HDTV still uses the mpeg2-ts, similar to the dvd codec. Newer tv hardwares (>2010-ish) all can decode mpeg4, theoretically, since they utilize internet streaming apps and services.
I smell a new format war a comin’.
I say, go right for mpeg4 h.265, or higher. Instead of mixing mpeg2 and mpeg4, like the video demonstrated. Because no way am i going to “buy” a DRM-protected thing for every broadcaster… I’m currently pulling-in 20+ stations.

And that may be the other format war… to pay or not to pay.