tivo’s emergency broadcast message
So, last night we were watching a recorded program (So You Think You Can Dance FTW!) on my Tivo when suddenly, an emergency broadcast message comes on… I go to fast forward through it, but the Tivo gives me the “BONG” noise..
WTF? Why can’t I fast forward through this emergency broadcast message… I mean, this isn’t even timely anymore, since this was recorded like an hour before…
Or.. wait.. Could it be? The Tivo is actually playing a *realtime* emergency broadcast message whilst I’m watching a time-shifted program?
And indeed, it was… apparently, even if you’re watching a recorded program, when there’s an emergency broadcast message, Tivo will interrupt your watching… It automatically pauses the program that you’re watching and shows you the emergency broadcast message.
Pretty cool.. The only thing that I’d suggest to Tivo would be to somehow let us know that it was indeed doing so..
Maybe something like an announcement a la “We interrupt this recorded program… this is not a test….”
June 25th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I definitely understand the confusion. Sometimes it is even hard to understand the announcement when a real emergency is going on….. During the ‘89 quake I was in my family’s car. We didn’t really feel the ground shake. But when cars started pulling over and kicking their tires we turned on the radio to hear a loud high pitched sound. My friend’s mom said, “Hey maybe it is a UFO!” -True story
July 7th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
to go off topic - i wanna hear bout this TV show - i heard about it over the wire while in Bangkok! i did manage to see some finalists do salsa taught by Alex Da Silva - sweet!