At 0:24 -0700 2002/06/02, Marc wrote: >To be honest, the complaints about this are excessive. The problem >isn't that the TiVo recorded a promotional show, it's that it recorded a >show that has some semi-adult content in it and parental controls don't >restrict promotional recordings.
...and they did this at the request of the BBC who paid them to do it. yeesh. I don't think anyone came out of this looking good. >UltimateTV surprisingly is less intrusive, it doesn't have to use the >phone at all (except for standard DirecTV PPV calls) and uses the >downstream from the dish to verify subscriptions. making it easier to bypass paying for service than it is on the TiVo, just activate the right tier and presto, UTV service. -- J. Eric Townsend -- jet spies com buy stickers: http://www.spies.com/jet/store.html to support the artcar: http://www.spies.com/jet/artcar.html Looking for vets who served with USASSG/ACSI/MACV in Vietnam, 1967-1970.