Screen Saver
Nov. 5th, 2006 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowThis semester, since I'm in class every evening Monday through Thursday, I'm having to tape almost all of the television shows that I watch. Tuesday evening, that's "Gilmore Girls" and "Veronica Mars". I've set my satellite box and VCR to record them automatically every Tuesday. Or so I thought.
Since they're back-to-back on the same channel ("The New CW"), I set the satellite box to tune to that channel at the beginning of GG, and the VCR to tape for two hours. I didn't bother telling the satellite box that I'd be taping VM as well.
Dish Network has a new trick. Under certain circumstances, presumably related to inactivity, it goes to a screen saver. It didn't go to the screen saver during last week's episode of GG, presumably because I'd set the timer on that show. However, I'd made no such request on VM.
That's right. My VCR taped a solid hour of screen saver instead of "Veronica Mars".
The kicker? GG was an episode I'd already seen.
Sigh.
Since they're back-to-back on the same channel ("The New CW"), I set the satellite box to tune to that channel at the beginning of GG, and the VCR to tape for two hours. I didn't bother telling the satellite box that I'd be taping VM as well.
Dish Network has a new trick. Under certain circumstances, presumably related to inactivity, it goes to a screen saver. It didn't go to the screen saver during last week's episode of GG, presumably because I'd set the timer on that show. However, I'd made no such request on VM.
That's right. My VCR taped a solid hour of screen saver instead of "Veronica Mars".
The kicker? GG was an episode I'd already seen.
Sigh.
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Date: 2006-11-05 09:44 pm (UTC)Sure, why not? (Be prepared for discussions of math, popular music, and dogs...)