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Dad Channels
TV Stations broadcast for AV equipment practice | |
Two TV stations broadcast on a couple of the spare freeview/sky/whatever channels. Each would broadcast a 'random' mix of five and ten minute programmes to learn about and test the function of modern hard disk/DVD recorders. The 'programmes' would just be yellow or red or grren or something, so one could
be distinguished from others.
This will provide cast-iron answers to the questions 'so, what'll it do if I try to record one thing in the middle of another?' and 'can I set it to record two things at once?' withouty one having to scan the airwaves for programmes that are about to start/finish before/after/between one another.
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Domestic AV kit is a total nightmare. I make a living doing sound and video professionally and I'd still watch this. |
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How does scart switching work anyway? And how do I disable it? Why do some devices only loop through composite and not Y/C? What the hell are all those hundreds of little symbols on the remote? |
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Pastry. As far as content, the test channels could also broadcast color test patterns in various aspect ratios and broadcast formats (NTSC/PAL, EDTV(720i,720p), HDTV(1080i,1080p).
Every so often, an audio frequency sweep from 0-24 khZ could be output in one channel of various audio encodings (mono, stereo, dolby pro-logic I, II). |
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It is easy to tune your home theater system with a test DVD, only to find it looks or sounds awful when you play things off the television receiver or DVR. |
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Right with you there. When we only had two channels, BBC1 and BBC2, we would get a test pattern for at least eight hours a night. Now we've got hundreds of channels and not a single calibration tool. |
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Then again, some channels don't seem to understand much about picture line-up at source, or audio line-up for that matter. |
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And another thing - <rant, rant, grumble, moan, kids these days, etc> |
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Dad is not an acronym. Dad is just your dad, who wants to know all the features but can neither understand nor remember what he's already discovered. |
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I am a Dad now. I will be a Dad twice over come the spring. Aren't these five p pieces little! Where are my keys? Have I had my dinner yet? |
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//what's DAD short for?//
Because he stopped growing when he was 5 foot 2.
(Sorry, couldn't resist...) |
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As for the idea, outstanding! [+] |
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[theN...] I knew that but tell me, is it your opinion that MUMs are just toooo clever to ever need this advice? |
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My mum is not interested in learning how it works. |
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