[mythtv-users] press a key to continue watching this channel

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Wed Feb 9 21:42:30 UTC 2011


On 09/02/11 19:25, Greg wrote:
> On 02/09/2011 12:13 PM, Marc Randolph wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Ryan Patterson<ryan.goat at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Johnny Walker<johnnyjboss at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> So I noticed this morning on a long news program, Morning Express with
>>>> Robin Meade on HLNHD using TWC in Dallas, Tx
>>>>
>>>> After several hours the cable box popped up the message asking me to
>>>> press any key to continue. I was watching the show time shifted about
>>>> 2 hours but with commercial breaks I was catching up fast.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway I was still 45 mins behind so the channel went to black for a
>>>> moment and then switched to showing SYFY channel and the recording
>>>> continued.
>>> The only time I've seen that happen is with an old cable box (ten
>>> years ago?) that you could pre-program what shows you wanted to record
>>> in the future. Then when the time came it would ask you to press a
>>> button to NOT change the channel. This allowed the customer to
>>> program the VCR to record at a certain time and not worry about using
>>> an IR-blaster to change the channel on the cable box.
>>>
>>> I don't know why a cable box would do this without being programed
>>> that way. Perhaps Sci-Fi channel (I can't type the new dumb name)
>>> pays them money to switch the channel if you are not paying attention?
>> The behavior Johnny describes is very bothersome. I wonder if they
>> ran out of switched digital video (SDV) channels and that is their
>> method for reclaiming them.
>>
> They (TWC) do the same thing here in Northern New York...They think if
> you sit on a channel too long it's idle,and it asks for confirmation..
> Marc is right it's part SDV,It won't do that on channels that aren't SDV...
>
Aaaaand is the Superbowl program two hours long? Any others? What happens when 
you get a news special and you just get rolling news all day? I've seen this on 
some of the international news channels with regard to the current Egypt crisis.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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