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July 19, 2006 at 10:35 pm #24046gossipingraeMember
Hi!
I have been mising some of my favorite tv shows because of my new job, and I’ve even been missing the reruns. Is there any way I can watch past episodes on the internet without paying a royalty fee of some sort?
July 20, 2006 at 12:09 am #148442MrEggsaladParticipantWell, since that is technicly “stealing” no :(. If you have a TiVo or something such as that I’d suggest you use that, or even do it from iTunes, but that does have a fee.
July 20, 2006 at 12:17 pm #148443MrOatsMemberYep. Eggsalad is right. I can’t think of any downloadable TV show “services” that isn’t considered stealing…
*looks up* Try iTunes Like EggSalad Said. Includes popular networks such as: ABC, FOX, FX, Sci. F, USA, etc… Price per episode=$1.99
*looks up again* Or Tivo, like EggSalad said(Recomended). Comes with several plans, many which have a $0 Box fee. 1 year plan=$19.95/Month
You could rent the season DVD’s on Netflix when they come out if you’d like(if possible), but you’d have to wait… Cheap Plan= $5.95/Month
July 20, 2006 at 4:59 pm #148436OreoMemberOr you could do it the “old fashioned” way and set up a VCR (or DVD recorder) to record them when you are not home. The timer thing is a snap 😀
July 20, 2006 at 5:15 pm #148439Hurricane22491MemberYou could get a TV tuner and record the shows to your computer. It’s sort of like Tivo, but there’s no monthly fee for it. You just have to buy the card and install it.
July 22, 2006 at 2:08 am #148440gossipingraeMemberhmm okay i’ll have to look into the tv tuner for my laptop. i’ve tried the old school vcr and timer thingy, but the shows are those corny MTV reality shows like real world and run’s house. this means that whenever i try to record from mtv for those shows, the tape only comes up as snow. i guess MTV blocks those programs? thanks for your help guys!
July 22, 2006 at 3:26 am #148438DavidParticipantgossipingrae wrote:hmm okay i’ll have to look into the tv tuner for my laptop. i’ve tried the old school vcr and timer thingy, but the shows are those corny MTV reality shows like real world and run’s house. this means that whenever i try to record from mtv for those shows, the tape only comes up as snow. i guess MTV blocks those programs? thanks for your help guys!Err, sounds like you configured the VCR improperly. The way that data is sent can’t be encoded so that a VCR could be blocked. The VCR records the signal in exactly the same way the TV displays it.
July 22, 2006 at 1:56 pm #148441gossipingraeMemberI don’t understand how I would have configured it incorrectly. I set the VCR to the correct channel, set the timer for the correct time, and just let it do it’s thing. Am I missing a step?
July 22, 2006 at 4:22 pm #148444PolarBearNPRParticipantThis might have something to do with the way your TV and VCR are hooked together. I’m not at all “handy” with these things, but if you got snow, you didn’t get signal. Is your cable hooked to your VCR? Or to your TV? It would have to be hooked to the VCR to get it to pick something up, otherwise . . . snow.
July 22, 2006 at 8:18 pm #148437OreoMemberOr it could be you need to clean the heads on your VCR. I think they still sell the VRC head cleaner tapes. You run it through it’s cycle and it cleans of the heads of the VCR so the VCR has a crisp picture. Though, that would only be the case if your regular tapes play through the VCR fuzzy as well. But certainly check your connections as suggested above, also you might want to make sure you don’t have something magnetic nearby…that could be messing with the reception as well.
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