10/15/02: Cable has arrived.

[juju]

I don't get Food TV here, unfortunately. How interesting can food really be, though? After all, you're not eating it. You're just watching someone else make it. Sounds boring to me.


I'm recording all my shows on Linux via my tv card. For each show, I've created a script like the one below using a program called vcr.

#!/bin/sh

DATE=`date +%m%d%y`
FILENAME=/home/ftp/tv/nightlynews_$DATE.avi
v4lctl setstation kfaa
vcr -t 30m $FILENAME

Then, I create a cronjob to record the show every week. When I come home, I have a directory full of divx avi's to watch whenever I want. Just like Tivo!

Here's all the entires I have so far:

# minute hour day_of_month month day_of_week comand

# weekly shows
00 9 * * 1-5 /home/juju/scripts/drphil.sh
00 16 * * 1-5 /home/juju/scripts/oprah.sh
30 17 * * 2-6 /home/juju/scripts/nightlynews.sh
25 22 * * 2-5 /home/juju/scripts/nightline.sh
30 23 * * 2-5 /home/juju/scripts/dailyshow.sh
00 2 * * 2-5 /home/juju/scripts/donahue.sh
30 16 * * 1 /home/juju/scripts/dailyshow.sh
30 17 * * 1 /home/juju/scripts/nightlynews_and_60min.sh
00 19 * * 1 /home/juju/scripts/donahue.sh
30 21 * * 1 /home/juju/scripts/crankyankers.sh
25 23 * * 1 /home/juju/scripts/nightline.sh
00 19 * * 2 /home/juju/scripts/crankyankers2.sh
00 19 * * 3 /home/juju/scripts/60min2.sh
00 21 * * 3,4,6 /home/juju/scripts/southpark.sh
28 19 * * 4 /home/juju/scripts/scrubs_and_frontline.sh
00 1 * * 7 /home/juju/scripts/nova.sh
00 4 * * 7 /home/juju/scripts/saf.sh
30 10 * * 7 /home/juju/scripts/stephanopoulos.sh
30 21 * * 7 /home/juju/scripts/crankyankers.sh
30 17 * * 7 /home/juju/scripts/dateline.sh

# one-shot shows
0 22 20 10 * /home/juju/scripts/fullmetalchallenge.sh
30 13 21 10 * /home/juju/scripts/music_behind_bars.sh

I haven't actually seen all of these shows yet, so I don't know if I'll like them or not. I still have to add some of your suggestions. I want to check out more of the msnbc shows you suggested, but I'd like to wait until they're off they're sniper kick.

I've tried getting VH1's "Music Behind Bars" twice so far and failed both times. Apparently the listings I have for VH1 are wrong. I'm really curious to see that show, though. The media sure are having a fit over it. How dare they give criminals airtime!