I doubt you will see that anytime soon. The broadcast industry has no good reason to try to help DVRs. in fact, they go out of their way many times to try to mess them up. I remember when I tried to record the pilot for lie to me, they had it starting at 9:03 running for an hour and 3 minutes and so it overlapped with some of the 10pm shows... and i really think one reason for that was so that things were not easy for DVRs. -- Brian Hartsfield CCNA, CCDA AIM: kd4aej Twitter: Krandor1 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=705369381 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianhartsfield
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Mike Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > With the large number of DVRs out there, youda thunk that the broadcast > industry would have taken advantage of the switch to digital to implement > some rudimentary flags that tell DVRs when a show has ended (and when it is > starting too) so that people wouldn't miss the end of their favorite show. > > The natural extension to this would be flags that say when the commercials > are starting and ending. This could be used by DVRs to allow people to skip > (which of course the broadcasters would not want), or it could be used to > prevent skipping (which the broadcasters would love). > > Mike > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
