[linux-dvb] Re: Fernseh-fee

[Ralf Spachmann <mel@melware.de>]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:23:45 +0200
"Henning Holtschneider" <hh@holtschneider.com> wrote:

> > The Fernseh-Fee will stop recording while commercials are sent out.
> > (commercial free decoder)
> >
> > Anyone knows how this could be done ?
> > The product description says that the stations send out start/stop
> > signals whean ads are sent ?! Do we know those signals ?
> 
> It's not the TV stations that send those signals but the manufacturer of the
> "Fernseh-Fee" (i.e. some poor soul watches the TV program and pushes a
> button whenever the commercials start ;-) If I interpret

Uups - that's indeed not very faithful ...

> http://www.telecontrol.de/fee/Frequenzen.htm correctly, they are using radio
> frequencies of Deutschlandfunk and DeutschlandRadio to broadcast their data
> (as RDS signals?).

Poor technology - so nothing we can use in VDR !

> BTW, I wonder know how serious this offering is. The product description (a
> converted Powerpoint slideshow) uses every color you could imagine and the
> "suggested retail price is 299 DM to 400 DM depending on the dealer" 8-)

That's correct. But I was only interested in using the 
commercial-cut and how it's done - NOT in such a product !

> > I think that the Fee uses EPG signals for most of its features.
Agreed

> The Fee seems to be an EPG and parental control set-top box for analog TV
> which doesn't have those features by itself.

Thanks for comments.

Ralf

> 
> Regards,
> hh
> 


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