Anomalies
Last night (Wednesday, July 6, 2011), for some entirely unfathomable reason we’ve yet to discern, our DVR recorded the Channel-Eight news instead of Channel 13.
This was despite our DVR is programmed to record the Channel 13 news.
Our video-cable is wired directly into our DVR, since it’s cable-ready.
That is, it’s not wired into our TV, which is really just a monitor with sound.
The DVR has to be on to play the TV. Channel-select is our DVR.
The TV just plays whatever the DVR is sending, which includes recordings.
The TV news is all we watch. TV has been replaced by our computers.
People are infuriated our TV is so rudimentary, just a tiny flatscreen monitor.
Our computer-monitors are much bigger, and better, in my humble opinion.
I have no interest in watching high-definition TV sports; basketball, baseball, or NASCAR. Or even football. I’ve tried to watch the SuperBowl on occasion, but was quickly bored. It was just another football game.
Channel-Eight news was unbearable; hardly any news-content, more fluff.
In yet another attempt to improve its ratings, Channel-Eight had reformatted itself into what I call “Facebook news.”
“You go girl,” and bubbling enthusiasm.
New personalities were lobbing angles at me; supposedly making the news more attractive by giving it an angle.
Trouble is, the angle was trumping the news.
Content was subservient to the angle, as if it were the angle that mattered.
Well sorry; for me it’s the content, and Channel-Eight was ruining it.
I poked around. Had Time Warner suddenly made Channel 13 into Channel-Eight?
Needless-to-say our remote wouldn’t channel-select, except for perhaps one change.
Nothing new. Our remote never changes channels.
I managed to find channel-select on our DVR, and started fiddling it.
I got Channel 13, but it was 13-0 instead of 13-1.
13-1 no longer existed.
Was this the reason, although if so, why did our DVR default to Channel-Eight?
Forget reasoning! You gotta stop that thinkin’ jazz; thinkin’ is dangerous.
I reprogrammed the recording to 13-0; we’ll see what happens.
* Channel-Eight is the local CBS affiliate; Channel 13 is ABC. Channel 13 is number-one. (I’m referring to the local news broadcast.)
• Our cable-TV supplier is Time Warner.
This was despite our DVR is programmed to record the Channel 13 news.
Our video-cable is wired directly into our DVR, since it’s cable-ready.
That is, it’s not wired into our TV, which is really just a monitor with sound.
The DVR has to be on to play the TV. Channel-select is our DVR.
The TV just plays whatever the DVR is sending, which includes recordings.
The TV news is all we watch. TV has been replaced by our computers.
People are infuriated our TV is so rudimentary, just a tiny flatscreen monitor.
Our computer-monitors are much bigger, and better, in my humble opinion.
I have no interest in watching high-definition TV sports; basketball, baseball, or NASCAR. Or even football. I’ve tried to watch the SuperBowl on occasion, but was quickly bored. It was just another football game.
Channel-Eight news was unbearable; hardly any news-content, more fluff.
In yet another attempt to improve its ratings, Channel-Eight had reformatted itself into what I call “Facebook news.”
“You go girl,” and bubbling enthusiasm.
New personalities were lobbing angles at me; supposedly making the news more attractive by giving it an angle.
Trouble is, the angle was trumping the news.
Content was subservient to the angle, as if it were the angle that mattered.
Well sorry; for me it’s the content, and Channel-Eight was ruining it.
I poked around. Had Time Warner suddenly made Channel 13 into Channel-Eight?
Needless-to-say our remote wouldn’t channel-select, except for perhaps one change.
Nothing new. Our remote never changes channels.
I managed to find channel-select on our DVR, and started fiddling it.
I got Channel 13, but it was 13-0 instead of 13-1.
13-1 no longer existed.
Was this the reason, although if so, why did our DVR default to Channel-Eight?
Forget reasoning! You gotta stop that thinkin’ jazz; thinkin’ is dangerous.
I reprogrammed the recording to 13-0; we’ll see what happens.
* Channel-Eight is the local CBS affiliate; Channel 13 is ABC. Channel 13 is number-one. (I’m referring to the local news broadcast.)
• Our cable-TV supplier is Time Warner.
Labels: ain't technology wonderful?
posted by BobbaLew at 7:28 AM
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