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Feb. 25th, 2002 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unbibiumYou may have wondered why your VCR needs to be turned off in order to tape shows off the timer.
Well, I taped over two episodes of Good Eats with a single episode which spanned over different halves of different episodes. So it'll take me that much longer to build up a nice tapefull.
Well, I taped over two episodes of Good Eats with a single episode which spanned over different halves of different episodes. So it'll take me that much longer to build up a nice tapefull.
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I always thought...
Date: 2002-02-25 10:19 pm (UTC)I always thought that if the write-protect tab
on video-cassettes were a 3-way dealie-bobber,
then you could have one position mean ``go ahead
and record on this tape'', one mean ``do not
record on this tape'', and one mean ``only record
on this tape when I press record and then answer
yes to your prompt''.
As soon as I started to reply, I thought about
having a mechanism whereby you could make a VCR
that read a bar-code or mag-label off of a video
cassette and then you could set your VCR to only
record on spots on that tape that it hasn't
recorded on (or go into expert mode to record
wherever). But... anyway, TiVo is a much better
option.... 8^)