Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset

Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I had a VCR and remember tv guide. What did these codes do.

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  • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Later model VCRs had a thing where they kept a list of shortcuts for time/channel/length. The eight (ten?) digit code, you’d just plug that into the VCR and you didn’t have to program all the details.

    It was a standard system for setting up a VCR to record your selected program, because every VCR was different. I believe you connected the VCR to a phone line and it would dial out to get new codes? It was sort of like DNS (really like a distributed HOSTS file), but for media recording instead of websites.

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    • ace_garp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You just unlocked a buried memory of the VCR with the barcode-reader-in-the-remote method of setting record-times.

      They out here trying everything in the 90s.

      NV-F65 and NV-FS88

      443549

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cool thanks!

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