Subj : TV Woes
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Sep 14 2025 10:13:00

Hello Rob Mccart!

** On Saturday 13.09.25 - 08:46, you wrote to ALL:

 RM> I had a minor disaster the other day when the recorder for
 RM> my Satellite TV service ate it's storage drive. What was
 RM> really annoying is that I had many hundreds of hours of
 RM> recordings on it, mostly of shows I hadn't seen yet. I
 RM> collect them to use when the regular channels all go into
 RM> summer vacation with no new shows on.

Does it still spin up? I've heard that the hdds can be  
repurposed for other storage outside the sattv box.

Yeah.. too bad that the hdd failed. I guess there really wasn't  
any option to do a "backup" even if you wanted to.  Sounds like  
those drives were only intended to be for temporary storage,  
not archival.  So.. the idea is to watch watch what you record  
"as soon as possible"?


 RM> ..so that I can jump over commercials
 RM> ..the ability to 'rewind'

Yes.. handy features/habits to have.


 RM> Another help at this point is Rogers have added 4 feeds of the
 RM> Starz Network which show mostly older shows and lots of movies
 RM> all commercial free.

Maybe no $'d commecials..  but they might interrupt the  
programming with station calls or announcements?


 RM> Tonight I watched Stephen King's Christine for the 2nd or 3rd
 RM> time and, another that's so well known I thought I must have
 RM> seen it at some point (but apparently hadn't)  The Notebook.

Never seen the former.  I just learned that many of King's  
stories are interconnected and related to each other. "As the  
author himself has acknowledged, 'All of the books kind of  
relate to other ones.'"

The latter was quite ok.  But.. as with most Nicholas Sparks  
stories, I think he paints the man as righteous and the woman  
as the infidel.

Only ever had OTA TV here.  I bought an LG HDD/DVR (don't  
remember the year) and it was great to "pause" OTA and come  
back to the program later, and even skip the commercials.

I also used it to transfer VHS to it. It allowed modest editing  
to cut out unwanted parts. Once on the HDD, it allowed burning  
to DVD.  Quite nice. When a handful of people needed VHS tapes  
preserved to DVD, I obliged.

I still have the HDD/DVD unit hooked up, but haven't used it in  
years.


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