Talk:Video recorder scheduling code

Merge proposal

Yeah, support. They're both describing the same thing. Fourohfour 20:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Request to update the article

With the obsolescence of the VCR and the transition to DTV in America, is VCR Plus still supported by any device?--Kencaesi (talk) 18:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what your point is, neither is relevant surely. DVD and Hard Disc recorders have mostly taken over from video recorders these days... my digital recorder supports Videoplus, and I currently use the numbers to programme it to record things from digital t/v. 91.85.162.72 (talk) 19:41, 6 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

VideoPlus

not sure - but I think so - most of the TV listings still include the codes Robthehornet (talk) 20:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Differences Between Systems

I used to work for Gemstar in the mid-90s as a field support engineer and can clarify the technical workings of a lot of this.

The 7 and 8 codes were generated using 'table files' which were sent to publications every month. Without these table files it was impossible to predict the encoding mechanism for the 7 and 8 digit codes. The 9-digit codes prefixed the 8-digit codes with a numeric offset (up to 8 digit codes were accurate only to 5-minute intervals, 9-digit added on the minute offset 1-4).

There were different algorithms - subtly different - for VCR Plus, ShowView and VideoPlus.

ShowView was European (ish - we did an install in Russia at one point), VideoPlus was pretty much exclusively UK, and VCR Plus was the rest of the world.

I'll leave it to another editor to amend the article if deemed necessary. Capnb (talk) 15:39, 8 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]