Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > There is interesting system: they publish on sunday's newspaper all the shows > > with some numbers. If u type this number, the VCR records the show! > > Dont now about comercials , though. But maybe the VCR can decode the number > > sent in vertical retrace(timestamp?) . > > It isnt encoded into the tv at all. The numbers are encrypted copies of the > (time, length, channel) tuple. They crypt them so that people have to pay > to buy encoders for the tv data! > Oh ,my... A reply from Alan. For me it is like a answer from God Himself, while praying :) But here is the blaspheme: I think u are not totally right :) I saw once a live show with a normal broadcast TV and a satelite TV. While in the ads, the normal TV show then. But the TV through satelite shows a blank screen , maybe because the ads are localized and not shown to all country. So ,this is a evidence that they broadcast some info in vertical retrace to keep the regional repeaters in sync with the ads. I even adjusted my TV to show the vertical retrace (V-height). So i can see this interesting stuff realtime. Regards. Marco -- >UNIX is like sex: If you don't know it, you don't miss it. But if >you know it, you'll need it. -- Anonymous.
