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TV shows were scheduled for your local stations and there may be an alternate channel that would have an echo or rebroadcast schedule. If you wanted to watch "
by skylanh 5y ago
TV shows were scheduled for your local stations and there may be an alternate channel that would have an echo or rebroadcast schedule.
If you wanted to watch "your show" you had to either have someone record it, or record it yourself. There were even VCRs that could be programmed to start recording at a certain point for a specific duration.
In all of humanity's many combinations of people, situations, and outcomes, yes, this has happened hundreds of thousands of times.
It's literally a meme that "oh! no, don't watch that one--that has our sex tape in the middle".
- robocat 5y ago> There were even VCRs that could be programmed to start recording at a certain point for a specific duration. Although programming VCRs correctly required skill, because the user interfaces were so abysmal. It was a meme that parents couldn't do it. For younger readers: there was a single small display on the early programmable VCRs that could show a few digits, which needed to sequentially program the slot, channel, start time, and end time. Years later there were LCD screens on the remote, although they were still cryptic, and they didn't always synchronise correctly to the VCR, so results were unpredictable. Even later there were on-screen user interfaces (which were still extremely quirky). Reading a manual was definitely required at first.