laura_seabrook | Mar. 16th, 2008

Argh - I am so annoyed!

I've been taping and watching Noein which has been repeated Sundays on ABC2 between 12:30-1:30pm. Now the only trouble is that ABC2 is a digital TV channel, so to tape it I have to have the set top box programmed for that channel at those times, and feed this to my VCR via the front AV input. It works, sometimes.

But, the set top box is "fragile". If you cut the power from it for only a second or two, it loses the programming (whereas my VCR retains its programming for up to 30 minutes of no power). So off and on, it's been losing that. We had a thunderstorm last month and Kevin cut power. It wasn't 'til later when I discovered an hour of recorded blue screen that I figured what'd gone wrong. Today there was a 2 second power surge and that was enough to screw it up. I only saw the last 10 minutes of the episodes.

Very annoying. I could have just watched it live I guess, however I was working on a web comic page (the page for the 15th is now up) and didn't want to be distracted. Last week they were showing a music festival from Adelaide instead. Argh! Maybe I'm not meant to watch this show.