My TiVo has been struck dumb

[graham]

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:04:31 -0400, "Randy S."
<rswittNO@SPAMgmail.com> wrote:

>graham@dircon.co.uk wrote:
>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:14:05 -0400, "Randy S."
>> <rswittNO@SPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>If you read between the lines, you may be able to figure out I'm
>>>not a big G.W. Bush fan.
>>
>>
>> But what if he were a Tivo owner?
>>
>> -)
>>
>> Graham
>
>Hmm, doubt it, we all know he doesn't read the newspapers or watch the
>news. Probably just watches old reruns of Bonanza ;-).

President Bush walks into his local TV shop.

Bush: "This Tivo box of mine aint working. I set it to watch out for
and record my favourite cowboy series and all it keeps doing is
recording repeats of my speeches!"

Sales Assistant: "That might be becuase you typed in bozo anza"

-)

Graham

 

[seth]

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>Dom Robinson" <Usetheaddress@inthesig.com> wrote in message
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> In article <vj2ma1h26adalsnln1oeocbefkudgua9nb@4ax.com>,
> graham@dircon.co.uk

<<< Stuff Snipped >>>

Dom's making a pretty good case to give up TiVo due to the company one
keeps...

 

[Guest]

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In article <nb2ma15p08b4d2avu37jmvantefq2ld073@4ax.com>, graham@dircon.co.uk
says...
> On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:39:42 +0100, Dom Robinson
> <Usetheaddress@inthesig.com> wrote:
>
> >In article <fvmla11fos330h7nh4n1ckb3qgpv56adfc@4ax.com>, graham@dircon.co.uk
> >says...
> >> >So, even if the TiVo did record it for anyone, it had zero effect on any user.
> >> >
> >> Zero effect? If I had children and were happy for them to watch
> >> programmes that had been recorded on a Tivo box I would be bloody
> >> furious to discover that the BBC had decided to shove things on the
> >> box that were for broadcast after the watershed.
> >>
> >As the parent, you're the person who should control what the watch. If you
> >don't, then you're no longer parenting, you're being lazy.
>
> Ultimately the buck stops with the parent.
>
> However, I believe any parent would have grounds to be more than angry
> to discover that the BBC had decided to shove a post watershed show
> onto the box.
>
> Surely, you are not suggesting that these parents have no right to
> complain?
>
Everyone has a right to complain - that's what freedom of speech is all about.
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In article <d8f307$ueq$1@spnode25.nerdc.ufl.edu>, rswittNO@SPAMgmail.com
says...
> > As the parent, you're the person who should control what the watch. If you
> > don't, then you're no longer parenting, you're being lazy.
>
> No, Dom, I have to agree with Graham here, the show placement was
> irresponsible. A responsible parent w/ a child accessible Tivo can keep
> that Tivo "post-watershed" free if they carefully control what shows are
> recorded and turn suggestions off. The "Featured content" is outside of
> that control. If I setup a Tivo that my child has access to, and
> restrict channels to only those with appoved content, I should be
> confident that he won't see inappropriate material. The airing of the
> post-watershed show as featured content bypasses that control, and was a
> mistake.
>
What was in that show which made is so objectionable, apart from it not being
funny - a bit of strong language?

Radio 4 have had Sunday afternoon plays containing the f-word and justified
this because (a) they don't have a watershed, (b) the play wouldn't have got a
sizeable audience outside of that timeslot, and (c) it's not the kind of thing
the kids would listen to anyway.

I think Dossa & Joe fell into the category of (c)
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> What was in that show which made is so objectionable, apart from it not being
> funny - a bit of strong language?
>
> Radio 4 have had Sunday afternoon plays containing the f-word and justified
> this because (a) they don't have a watershed, (b) the play wouldn't have got a
> sizeable audience outside of that timeslot, and (c) it's not the kind of thing
> the kids would listen to anyway.
>
> I think Dossa & Joe fell into the category of (c)

Oh, God, how the hell should I know? It isn't my decision anyway, it's
whomever designates whether a show is watershed or post-watershed. We
just have to take for granted that something designated post-watershed
has some sort of mature audience only content in it. If it doesn't,
then that's a failure of the watershed rating committee.

You may or may not approve of the way regulation is enacted, but you
have to deal with what's there regardless.

Randy S.