vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) (11/13/90)
Hi, Does anyone know of a ``smart'' remote that'll set a video to record a TV programme at a given time. The reason for this is that I'm never sure whether I'll be at home in the evening when there is some TV programme that I'd like to watch, so I'd like to have every TV programme I'd like to watch encoded in the video. The problem is that the video manufacturers only (at max.) allow you to pre-set eight TV programmes. My solution is for a magic doohickey that has a timer in it that will schedule oodles of TV programmes and send the <CHANNEL#><RECORD> sequence to the video at the proper time. My next problem is that I don't know how to build the hardware, so does anyone have any experience/circuits for video infra-red generation (and reception so that it can ``learn'' the sequence to send). Hopefully, vic -- Victor Gavin <vic@grep.co.uk||+44 532 500303> Grep Limited, Kirkfields Business Centre, Kirk Lane, Leeds, UK, LS19 7LX