Hanging on to the old TV set won't provide any opportunity to teach because it will simply stop working in a couple of years, of course you can hook it up to a modulator, but at that point it works like a really crappy tuner-less display, which also does not teach the lesson.
My solution is probably not suitable for even 1% of the population, I hand-rolled software to record DVB-T. As with a TIVO user, for me TV is now something that queues up over time and I watch whatever I want when I have free time, except in my case I can watch it on my laptop on a train. Right now, for example, there's a file named The_Simpsons-38327_018-20091125-1800-0.mpeg which is episode 18 of a season of The Simpsons recorded back in November. But at least if I miss a TV show it's because of a bug in /my/ software* and so there's no-one to blame but myself.
* Or rarely, because someone fucked up the metadata. That moment in Series 2 of The Wire when Officer Russell goes into the shipping container and sees what is inside? BBC 2 had been asserting that the current show was "BBC News" with the associated URI for two whole minutes by that point, so my software quite reasonably stopped recording. The BBC denied knowledge of any fault, even though presumably everyone with Freeview+ got burned the same way. But I ran tests for a month, way back when I wrote the metadata handler and concluded that the metadata is now more reliable than a TV Guide, overall.
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Date: 2009-12-17 05:14 am (UTC)My solution is probably not suitable for even 1% of the population, I hand-rolled software to record DVB-T. As with a TIVO user, for me TV is now something that queues up over time and I watch whatever I want when I have free time, except in my case I can watch it on my laptop on a train. Right now, for example, there's a file named The_Simpsons-38327_018-20091125-1800-0.mpeg which is episode 18 of a season of The Simpsons recorded back in November. But at least if I miss a TV show it's because of a bug in /my/ software* and so there's no-one to blame but myself.
* Or rarely, because someone fucked up the metadata. That moment in Series 2 of The Wire when Officer Russell goes into the shipping container and sees what is inside? BBC 2 had been asserting that the current show was "BBC News" with the associated URI for two whole minutes by that point, so my software quite reasonably stopped recording. The BBC denied knowledge of any fault, even though presumably everyone with Freeview+ got burned the same way. But I ran tests for a month, way back when I wrote the metadata handler and concluded that the metadata is now more reliable than a TV Guide, overall.