What's in a Name?

I've just not the drive today to include much of an entry. We did the weekly grocery shopping at the Canadian Superstore in Coquitlam as is the custom. This evening we're invited to dinner with friends in the West End.

In the interim, I've been playing with the new satellite receiver. I once thought the Bell ExpressVu 5100 (shown in center below) was absolutely amazing in its ability to save TV to an internal hard disk. That was in 2002.



Now the HD 9200 is much more advanced in this feature because of improved timers. Rather than just set up recordings by time slot, it uses name-based recording. For example, I can highlight a future event such as Family Guy. Then, rather than keeping my fingers crossed that the station will always show at this time, I can select Family Guy and have the system find and record all new episodes.

This improvement makes the unit a small step closer to being like TiVo which is not available in Canada. I could also in theory input the name of an actor and have the receiver find and record all upcoming instances.