{"id":396,"date":"2009-01-11T22:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T11:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:51:55","slug":"icetv-saves-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"IceTV saves the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of the US TV show &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0813715\/\">Heroes<\/a>&#8216;. But it has been hard to watch, thanks to the TV station here, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.primetv.com.au\/\">PrimeTV<\/a>, shuffling it around the TV programming schedule. Season 3 came to a premature end late last year, but there was a suggestion it would reappear early this year. I went away to join my family mid-week for a few days of holiday, and returned yesterday to discover that the resumption took place last Thursday evening. I figured I had missed it.<\/p>\n<p>That was particularly irritating because of the way that &#8216;Heroes&#8217; is structured as a complex array of intersecting stories, with those intersections largely coming in the last couple of episodes. This missed episode was the penultimate one for the season.<\/p>\n<p>But just in case I checked my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyonwiz.com.au\/DP_P2_overview.asp\">Beyonwiz PVR<\/a>. And, lo and behold, there it was!<\/p>\n<p>There was no magic involved. It&#8217;s just that last year some time I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icetv.com.au\/\">marked on IceTV<\/a> my interest in recording all episodes of &#8216;Heroes&#8217; as they appeared. The Beyonwiz is plugged into my network, and it periodically interrogates this website to download up to date electronic program guides, plus information on programs to record.<\/p>\n<p>Similar facilities are apparently available using TiVo. If you&#8217;re keen on not missing recordings, these are well worth checking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a huge fan of the US TV show &#8216;Heroes&#8216;. But it has been hard to watch, thanks to the TV station here, PrimeTV, shuffling it around the TV programming schedule. Season 3 came to a premature end late &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}