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- From: morris@eng.umd.edu (Morris S. Berman)
- Subject: VCR Plus Project...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.132927.13649@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 13:29:27 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- Summary: VCR Plus for HP48
- Sender: morris@eng.umd.edu
- Keywords: VCR REMOTE CONTROL
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- Here's an ideas for a program for the HP 48.
- In this area we have a device called VCR Plus,
- I don't know if it's nationwide (USA) yet. But
- the deal is that in the TV guide there is a
- number for each show that you may wish to record.
- You enter that number into the VCR Plus
- device and it can determine the channel, time and
- day of the show that you want recorded. It
- does the recording by learning from your VCR
- remote how to "turn on", "stop", "record", etc
- the VCR.
- Now if someone could determine how to extract
- the time/channel info from the VCR Plus number,
- you would program the HP48 to automatically
- record programs by just enterting that number
- that appears in the TV guide. I don't have
- the time right now to do this programming (and
- I just got my HP48 two days ago, as well).
- But here is an idea for anyone on the Net
- looking for a novel project.
-
- -Mb
- morris@eng.umd.edu
-