urgent silly question (uk only): if the numbers to programme the videoin the TV guide are wrong is there somewhere on the net you can look up the right ones?

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hmmmm?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 07:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you googles for "UK TV guide" or something like that?

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

well the bbc site didn't tell me

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Who decides what the numbers mean? I assume it can't be some sort of encryption of the time and date, so someone must. Does the station send out the number at the start of the broadcast or what?

― Sofa King Alternative (Sofa King Alternative), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nor does ananova

(yeah i think it just means START MACHINE NOW, cz it still records the prog if the broadcast is a bit delayed)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:02 (twenty-three years ago)

oh it's working now: maybe i was keying in the wrong digits pre-coffee?

still, i'd like to know, cz i often don't buy as tv guide

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The number is just based on the channel, start and stop times. The reason it still records delayed prorgrammes is the PDC (Programme Delivery Control) signal techology. I don't think this is reliant on Videoplus, but I might be wrong.

Anyway, Videoplus BAD
Mark S, can you really not program a video recorder without Videoplus?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

http://tallyho.bc.nu/~steve/videoplus.html

has the source code to compile your own videoplus decoder*. you give it date, time, channel, and length of program and it'll give you the videoplus number. this is probably too much work and it's probably easier to just do a non-videoplus recording. can't find a website with the numbers pre-calculated though, i think the licensing issues stop this.

or buy a tivo. they're great.

andy
* the page i found this link on had another version of the same program written in spectrum BASIC. ha!

― koogs, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:30 (twenty-three years ago)

not b4 i've had coffee apparently nick (it didn't even occur to me to programme in the time!!)

my friend psyche is featured on doctors this afternoon (2.05-2.35), so look out for it!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:35 (twenty-three years ago)

You are friends with goddesses of the soul now?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

you have a 'TV star' for a friend. kewl!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 09:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a TV star friend too: I've known her for over twenty years (since she was 15!) and she has been on Trisha several times. She started as an expert on bizarre (carefully chosen word: she created and edited the mag of that name for many years) sexual stuff, and then sort of became a more general relationship expert.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

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