<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Ouellette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pat@flying-gecko.net" target="_blank">pat@flying-gecko.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
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> For breaking news/weather alerts, I'll actually schedule recordings<br>
> on a bunch of channels, then start watching one and if they're not<br>
> talking about the thing I'm interesting in hearing about, I'll use<br>
> MENU to go to Jump to Program and switch to one of the other<br>
> programs. I'll do this for each of the recordings I started, then<br>
> use JUMPPREV (no default binding) or PREVCHAN (H) to flip through<br>
> all of them--and I can jump backwards or forwards in them to find<br>
> the spots where they /do/ talk about the important stuff... It's<br>
> basically channel surfing evolved--channel surfing but with the<br>
> benefit that MythTV keeps recording the shows when I'm "surfed away"<br>
> so I don't have to worry about missing the important stuff because<br>
> I'm on some other channel when they talk about it...<br>
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Just curious, on a breaking news event or severe weather heading your way<br>
(e.g. tornado) if you don't have live TV on how do you know when to record<br>
those "bunch of channels?"<br>
<br><br>
</blockquote></div>How do you know to Turn on the TV?<div><br></div>