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Stuart · 28-05-2009, 23:45

PDC would be nice if it worked. Trouble is it relies on support from the broadcasters and, in my experience at least, this is inconsistant at best..

IIRC, the BBC got it mostly right but occassionally missed the signals. Channel 4 usually trasmitted the signals but would transmit them anywhere from 5 minutes early to 5 minutes late. ITV would transmit the signals apparently randomly. Very few (if any) of the smaller channels used PDC.

IIRC this was actually why Tivo dropped PDC support from their digital video recorder.

28-05-2009, 23:45	#2
Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,546	Re: V+ nice to haves if possible PDC would be nice if it worked. Trouble is it relies on support from the broadcasters and, in my experience at least, this is inconsistant at best.. IIRC, the BBC got it mostly right but occassionally missed the signals. Channel 4 usually trasmitted the signals but would transmit them anywhere from 5 minutes early to 5 minutes late. ITV would transmit the signals apparently randomly. Very few (if any) of the smaller channels used PDC. IIRC this was actually why Tivo dropped PDC support from their digital video recorder.