Classic Sesame Street is Back!

[MuppetDude]

So...can I trade with anyone for these shows?

 

[ssetta]

They are showing 30 and 29 at 2PM which is their main airing time. The earlier episodes are shown early in the morning. For some reason, they consider the newer episodes more important.

You're lying. I taped the 5 am airing today, and it was just 3821, which is the same one that aired at 5 pm yesterday. And they're only airing Season 30. They're not airing Season 29. I don't know where you got the idea that they're showing older episodes.

 

[minor muppetz]

You're lying.

How do you know he is lying? He could just be wrong.

 

[minor muppetz]

A while back I checked into the upcomming airing of sprout, and, for some reason, I seem to remember them saying programs aired through sprout would not be able to be taped or copied in any legal way.

I thought it was legal to tape anything off from TV as long as it was for private use only, not for profit. Would the owners of Sprout have a way of knowing if somebody recorded something off their channel?

 

[Rosewood]

actually they have developed a way to stop you

I thought it was legal to tape anything off from TV as long as it was for private use only, not for profit. Would the owners of Sprout have a way of knowing if somebody recorded something off their channel?

If it's "Sprout on demand" than yes. Originally I thought the same thing, that any show seen on T.V. could be recorded by anyone. But when I ordered "Starz" on my cable channel, I once in a while had to record a program onto one of those re-writable disks in order to see it, due to the fact that they aired it at 3 in the morning or durring the day when my husband and I were at work. At first I had no problem, but suddenly (especially with the new releases) they have started putting some sort of lock on it that activates about 8-10 minutes into the movie and automatically shuts your recorder down. They have especialy developed this for "on demand" features, which state right up front that no "legal" recording is possible for programs seen through this feature. That includes "Sprout on demand" from what I have been able to gather. (The reason I say "legal" is because, obviously, if there is a lock out there that keeps the ordinary civilian from recording something, there is always going to be someone out there with the computer equipment and technological know- how that will still be able to do it; just not "legally", or they wouldn't have to bypass the locks in the first place.) Believe me, this new feature of being able to "lock" a program has been frustrating me with "Starz" for over 2 months now. The upper company management has spoken with me and said that any person who pays for "Starz" should be able to record any program at least once, as a curtosey to the customer. And they say they are still trying to work out the kinks, but, at this point I'm just about ready to cancel my membership with them.

 

[BEAR]

This whole thread just makes me sad.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

They also did somethind similar with TiVo. I dont remember what they did exactly, but the networks set the programming of their there shows up in such a way, that the Tivo would miss recording them, sonething about hoe it only records on the hour or something like that.

People were not tuning in and they want viweres to whach commercials. At one point, the networks were considering making advertisments go across the screen while you are viewing a show, which is kind of in the same manner that the news works with news running across the screen while the broadcast in still in progress.

 

[jobedo]

If it's "Sprout on demand" than yes. Originally I thought the same thing, that any show seen on T.V. could be recorded by anyone. But when I ordered "Starz" on my cable channel, I once in a while had to record a program onto one of those re-writable disks in order to see it, due to the fact that they aired it at 3 in the morning or durring the day when my husband and I were at work. At first I had no problem, but suddenly (especially with the new releases) they have started putting some sort of lock on it that activates about 8-10 minutes into the movie and automatically shuts your recorder down. They have especialy developed this for "on demand" features, which state right up front that no "legal" recording is possible for programs seen through this feature. That includes "Sprout on demand" from what I have been able to gather. (The reason I say "legal" is because, obviously, if there is a lock out there that keeps the ordinary civilian from recording something, there is always going to be someone out there with the computer equipment and technological know- how that will still be able to do it; just not "legally", or they wouldn't have to bypass the locks in the first place.) Believe me, this new feature of being able to "lock" a program has been frustrating me with "Starz" for over 2 months now. The upper company management has spoken with me and said that any person who pays for "Starz" should be able to record any program at least once, as a curtosey to the customer. And they say they are still trying to work out the kinks, but, at this point I'm just about ready to cancel my membership with them.

ROSEWOOD if your TOSHIBA supports Ram You may be able to record to a Ram disk . The way CPRM [copy flag] works is to let you copy it once to re-write medea but not to permanent -R or +R disk
JOE

 

[minor muppetz]

Could you record a program off that channel by using a regular VCR?

Or would the only way of recording a program be by putting a video camera in front of the television sceen and record it?

 

[Rosewood]

Disney channel has already started diong it

At one point, the networks were considering making advertisments go across the screen while you are viewing a show, which is kind of in the same manner that the news works with news running across the screen while the broadcast in still in progress.

Disney has already started to do this "cross the screen advertising" and it is down-right annoying as you know what! And this is in ADDITION to regular advertisments, which are already enough. Now, while you try to watch the premier movie they may be showing, every 8 minutes or so, durring the movie, this animated "ball" or "film strip" comes rolling across the screen (completely disrupting your view) and, when it reaches the other side, out pops the character of the newest "special" that will be comming up, along with a statement like "Be sure to tune in to "KIM Possible! (or W.I.T.C.H., or Dragon ball Z, or Power Rangers), Tomorrow at ------!" and it stays on the screen for a good 10 to 15 seconds! It's enough that their "Disney" logo is in bold, plain site in the lower corner 24-7. I could deal with that, because I know its meant to keep people from Illeagly copying and selling movies. But do they realy have to totally destroy any other possibility of getting a decent copy of an aired movie, simply for private enjoyment? (Or, for that matter, destroy any possibility of truely enjoying the movie at all?) It's very discouraging.