Use a DVR to Watch TV on Your Time
April 16th, 2008 | by Rob |WHY? A DVR will change the way you watch TV forever.
Okay, that sounds like an exaggeration, but I love our Digital Video Recorder. Seriously, if you don’t have one, get one. Well, if you like TV. Here’s some of my favorite reasons why:
- Record what you want to watch and watch it when you want to watch it
- Pause what you’re watching. No more rushing back from the bathroom during commercial break
- No more commercials. If we watch a show live, we record it then start watching 15-20 minutes late to get past commercials
- Automatically record only new shows in a series - never waste time on a rerun (unless you want to)
- Keep hours of shows for as long as you want or until the DVR is full
- Automatically keep a certain number of episodes of a show (see below)
- Watch new-to-you shows you’ve not seen before
- Fast-forward through boring parts of recorded shows
- Record shows that air in the middle of the night to watch later
One of the things I like best about this is that we can record, watch, and automatically keep just a few episodes of shows. For instance, we record daily shows like Jeopardy!, Pardon the Interruption, and The Colbert Report. But for each of these we tell it to only keep 1 at a time. So if we don’t watch yesterday’s show, today the old one is replaced with the new one. I like that for these as I’m not going to take the time to catch up on old ones.
We rent a DVR from our cable company. Others buy TiVo. Up to you, but if you get a DVR, and you like TV, you’re gonna love it.
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