[vdr] Re: VPS

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:49, you wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> >On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:12:13PM +0100, Harald Milz wrote:
> >> Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > Hmmm isn't the Epg a lot easier to use than all these Showview-stuff ?
> >> > Search-Ok-Ok is at least for me easier.
> >>
> >> Correct - but you cannot use it for programming more than - say - 1 or 2
> >> days ahead. People who are used to using Showview would feel better.
> >> They copy a number from the magazine to the remote and are done.
> >
> >Yep, that is really fast.  Nevertheless a more dynamic access of the
> >EPG data would be also a way.  In other words: By a given TITLE
> >and DAY it should be possible to determine the start and stop time.
> >This would be a nice way to catch variating starting times of some
> >series.  @Klaus: This may require some changes in the timer code
> >and a key word as replacement within the start/stop times.
>
> Has there been any discussions about a feature that would allow you to
> always record a given show at any day? Like "always record Simpsons, any
> day". I know the TiVo has such a feature.

Isn't that the reason for master-timer ? I don't see the use for an in-vdr 
mastertimer, since I would never ever try to type with my ir-remote. Maybe if 
sometimes someone has wrote a T9-similar typing solution based on the EPG as 
word-book. And I really need some big hd's to have a use for it at all ;) 


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