Today, we’ve skipped over almost all of August. I wonder if all the TV I would have expected to be here might be on a hard drive that just won’t start up, or I just haven’t found yet.
But there’s also a definite change that’s happened here, which requires a bit of Windows Media Centre history.
When it started, WMC used to save its recordings with the file extension DVR-MS. Internally, they were basically MPEG 2, the same transport stream that Digital TV was actually broadcasting.
But it’s 2009, and HD is a reality, so Microsoft had to change their file storage format to cope with the HD recordings, which aren’t in MPEG2, but are, I think, in H264.
So, a new file format was developed, with the extension WTV, which could support both standard definition and high definition broadcasts and recordings. And it looks, from my recording history, like that happened at some point in August 2009. The files in yesterday’s entry were both DVR-MS. Today’s recording is WTV and so are all the recordings after this.
It doesn’t make much difference to the recordings, at least until I start actually recording HD programmes, but it’s a big change.
Sadly, as far as today’s recording goes, it’s a repeat of Pokemon Battle Dimension – Lost Leader Strategy. You’d think with so many episodes, they wouldn’t be repeating them so soon, but that’s TV for you.
Media Centre Description: Ash continues his quest. In the woods around Veilstone city, Ash encounters the next Gym leader and challenges her to a duel.
Recorded from CITV on Monday 31st August 2009 08:03
After this the recording ends with the start of Storm Hawks.
Here’s the ad breaks.
Adverts:
- trail: Action Stations
- Barbie Doggie Park
- McDonalds – Looney Tunes
- Churchill Insurance
- Sure
- trail: Masters of Mischief
- Robinson’s Fruit Shoot
- McDonalds
- Ice Cream Parlour
- Let’s Cook
- Barbie Pink
- Gormiti Atomic
- Air Wick Freshmatic
- Churchill Insurance
- Geox
- trail: Toonattik
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