showtime in Spain

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About four years ago, home when we bought the first DVD recorder, discover a fascinating role: the Show View. This is a numeric code, only, for each television broadcast. As the DNI of TV programs.

If you put this little number on your VCR (eg #549307 for issuing Family Guy tonight at The Sixth), you do not need to indicate the time at which the series begins or ends. The Show View recognizes the start of the issue and starts recording, pause puts the ads, continues recording after the announcement and turns off when the program ends. The next day you go to your list and you are recording full uncut chapter.

¡Ay, home what we were elated to read about this technological advancement! But the joy was short lived we. Then we come to a very small asterisk, with tiny print, at the foot of the instructions of the DVD recorder. Said:

“The Show View works in all European countries except Spain”.

And he repeated in nine languages European Community, for them to know all our neighbors and also could make fun of us. For the pain is greater and deeper, Fuimos on the Internet looking for additional information:

"Codes ShowView -Said and still says the Wikipedia- Are published in more than 2.000 publications over 24 countries. Europe, codes Show View are found in virtually all national and regional newspapers and magazines in major TV and teletext ".

Months later travel to a country next door and, really, saw in the newspaper that all programs of the grid enclosing the code. And we also saw that all the inhabitants of that country were smiling down the street, happy to live in a region would be in Europe ... came home with shame. Why does not happen in Spain, we wanted to know? What is needed?

The answer came soon: Open the generalist of suspected (remain suspicious) if the Show View viewers becomes popular on a platter have the option to view without advertising emissions. And, on appeal, if you put the code Show View, will need to define criteria such advertisements and may not counter-program, nor our fill with illegal advertisements do fifteen minutes, still, with impunity and impudence.

I remember, four years ago, at home with resignation assume this misadventure and went, also, naive and optimistic. Thus fantasize: “The despair in: will arrive shortly TDT and this nightmare will be over”. ¡Ah, deluded!

Four years later

Today, with the advent of Digital Terrestrial Television (and European legislation, which is identical for all member countries of the Community) Spanish chains can no longer ignore the Show View. This numeric code exists today. But they can mock chains slightly more than spectator. And they do a very simple: do not advertise this advance. The newspapers do not incorporate the code in grills, programming guides and attach it. The Show View is, but the whole shebang communication cared much to talk about it. It is a ghost.

This week I tried to record TV programs using another system TDT: Traditional guide. You put "Guide" with the command, you see on TV an entire rack, choose the emission, I say you the recording from Monday to Friday and turn off quiet.

I did it with Spain's face, program AntenaNeox. I put a record five issues. On Saturday I sat quietly to watch them, and I had were five episodes of the series war SWAT.

Possibly managers Antena 3 decided at the last minute scheduling change Neox, without telling the guy that updates the Programming Guide. I imagine has happened is that. Or any other stupid like. Lack of communication between managers and trainees, something. People taking a lot of cocaine at night, button pusher at dawn and in the morning you forget to send the relevant circular. Lo normal.

Yes sir, We are at that point in the Spanish audiovisual technology. At the point that bosses do things without warning. And I dreaming Show View! These fanatics still do not know to use the internal email, and one fantasizing about we can ever enjoy a universal code in our recorders.

What do I do now with these five episodes SWAT Do I see, delete them, I keep them for later? What do I do with this latest generation TV I brought the Kings January 6, if half of the new advancements only I can use if I move to Portugal, the Andorra ..., o a Nigeria?

The Digital Terrestrial Television in Spain is a huge structure managed by chimpanzees, chimpanzees that direct them to open the TV. No one has noticed it yet, for the new digital TV a reality, The first thing to do is retire monkeys and people put forward? Occasionally, technological advances need, besides much noise, a little common sense. Within four years try recording again something, to see what comes.

While, and only by spite and revenge, publish codes here Show View chains of all Spanish, national, as autonomic, and digital. Keep these links, also propagate information. You can record television without advertising. Only nobody is interested in what we know.

Codes' Showview’ on Spanish television

Programming, In all cases, begins on the current date and extends for seven days in the future. Enjoy these advances you clandestine.

http://blogs.elpais.com/espoiler/2008/01/showview-para-q.html