Re: AKICF: CEEB choices (Was Re: IMDB.com "Studio Briefing" - Few

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kevrob@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kevrob) wrote:

Don't VCRs get the time automatically in the US?  They have for many
years in the UK.  Certainly, the one I just got rid off which I
bought back in 1999 did, as does its replacement, and the DVD
recorder I got free with my TV last year.

In my experience, they do, unless you have a very old one. Since this
most recent weekend past was our switch out of Daylight Saving back to
standard time, i had to change all the house clocks. The VCR will get
the time automatically, as long as you

1.) Choose that option on the setup menu and
2.) Tell the machine to check a channel that you know broadcasts the
time signal. IME, if no other local station does that, the public
broadcasting outlet will.

I would expect that one of the cable channels does this, too, but I'm
not that confident about my local provider. As of 11:00 p.m. last
night they still hadn't changed the onscreen clock on the public
access channels. The program guide (TV Guide channel) was banished to
the digital block that we aren't subscribed to, so if that was sending
the time signal, we ain't getting it.

I did wonder, because I've got the impression that in the UK, the time
was received as part of the teletext signal, which past threads have
suggested isn't available in the US, but someone else mentioned their VCR
getting the time recently.

Certainly, with my new VCR, I just had to switch it on and it picked up
the correct time. I wonder if this will still be available when analogue
is switched off. The VCR at least has a digital tuner, the DVD recorder
freebie I got last year has only an analogue tuner. (Probably why it was
given as a free gift.)

My landline answering machine hasn't updated the time after nearly nine
days. It's supposed to get the time from caller ID on incoming calls,
but I've only had one call in the past week, and that was when I had
broadband connected and the phone instructions specifically say that
broadband will interfere with caller ID. (But not the stand alone caller
ID device BT sold me before I upgraded my phone.)
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