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PDC (Programme Delivery Control) would later attempt to solve this crisis. Unless you were trying to do it on ITV and then you were at the whim of your local company, according to http://625.uk.com/pdc/#WhichStations most of the ITV regions that did support it in the north, and also Westcountry.
Of course these days its a technology that's gone out the window, but I suppose when broadcasters remember to update the EPG it tends to sort itself out so the concept is still there...
The DVB "running status in EIT" system is so very very inferior to what PDC offers.
The main thing is that only one "programme" can be in air at one time,
...if you were itv say you may like to make the "programme to be recorded "as
The ad breaks before and after the programme including all internal breaks .
That means that the external ad breaks are in two programmes .
The BBC Still uses the scheme I got BBC presentation to agree as be the default
Viz
The symbol before the programme thus adding BBC branding ( days before the BBC blocks at front) and any "health warning" ...
the programme itself
The first junction item ... so that you always got the end if the programme plus " if you have been affected by " or a trailer for a relevant programme ,.
The BBC was also the only broadcaster in the world to send the stop recording signal...
and to use the prepare to record flag ( I,e go into record pause before the programme)
PDC allows four "label channels" so most of the time it did a flip between two label channels
But if a short programme -like the weather- came in three could be used ...
On the first day of BBC PDC we crashed the all the BARB loggers as they only expected a single channel at one time .... which was how C4 were working ,,,
And some did use some imagination. One CA in Wales used to make his live links "programmes" so they were recorded on his recorder at home !!!
You know what must've been frustrating for folk with a VCR back in the 1980s and 1990s? Setting the video for BBC1 to record a film starting at 21:30, you go out, come home and get ready the next day to watch the film, only to find there's been an extended nine o' clock news!
PDC (Programme Delivery Control) would later attempt to solve this crisis. Unless you were trying to do it on ITV and then you were at the whim of your local company, according to http://625.uk.com/pdc/#WhichStations most of the ITV regions that did support it in the north, and also Westcountry.
Of course these days its a technology that's gone out the window, but I suppose when broadcasters remember to update the EPG it tends to sort itself out so the concept is still there...
The DVB "running status in EIT" system is so very very inferior to what PDC offers.
The main thing is that only one "programme" can be in air at one time,
...if you were itv say you may like to make the "programme to be recorded "as
The ad breaks before and after the programme including all internal breaks .
That means that the external ad breaks are in two programmes .
The BBC Still uses the scheme I got BBC presentation to agree as be the default
Viz
The symbol before the programme thus adding BBC branding ( days before the BBC blocks at front) and any "health warning" ...
the programme itself
The first junction item ... so that you always got the end if the programme plus " if you have been affected by " or a trailer for a relevant programme ,.
The BBC was also the only broadcaster in the world to send the stop recording signal...
and to use the prepare to record flag ( I,e go into record pause before the programme)
PDC allows four "label channels" so most of the time it did a flip between two label channels
But if a short programme -like the weather- came in three could be used ...
On the first day of BBC PDC we crashed the all the BARB loggers as they only expected a single channel at one time .... which was how C4 were working ,,,
And some did use some imagination. One CA in Wales used to make his live links "programmes" so they were recorded on his recorder at home !!!