Anyone using a DVR?

[azskyman]

I have a couple of VCR's that gave out on me...so I stuck them under the bed waiting for them to fix themselves. Didn't want to spend any money on them, so I thought if I left them alone for a couple years they might work again when I got them out.

In the meantime, our local cable company offered subscribers their new DVR (digital video recorder) service. Basically the same as TIVO, only owned by Cox.

Several good features with a DVR or TIVO unit. You simply ask the machine to record the shows every week, and it does it. It can record two shows at once while you are watching a third. You can stop live TV and come back after you answer the phone. And NO tapes!

We have only a handful of shows we watch each week anyway, but it allows us to capture the ones we want, watch them at our convenience, and then erase them to make space for others.

Just curious if anyone is using this service or TIVO. It costs a few bucks a month, but if it breaks I can call and get a new unit. Don't have to line it up under the bed with the other two VCR's!

[Miss Mary]

Nope sorry, we just have VCR's. One wouldn't tape any longer and I thought it was junk. I was tired of tripping over a basement full of junk. So I set it out with the trash but someone came along and picked it up (for parts?). Later when Jim explained an old VCR comes in very handy when an old TV isn't cable channel ready, I regretted pitching it. Now he tells me.....oh well, I did learn something that day. What you think is just collecting dust, you may need someday. So don't get rid of those old VCR's just yet.

Good luck. Hopefully someone will respond with info for you.

Mary

[Guest]

an old VCR comes in very handy when an old TV isn't cable channel ready, I regretted pitching it.

On my cable system, a fairly new TV (cable ready) displays a not-so-clear picture, but when you run it through the VCR, it clears up nicely. This is especially true in the lower channel numbers 2 - 13, where most cities' over-the-air stations reside.

[Miss Mary]

an old VCR comes in very handy when an old TV isn't cable channel ready, I regretted pitching it.

On my cable system, a fairly new TV (cable ready) displays a not-so-clear picture, but when you run it through the VCR, it clears up nicely. This is especially true in the lower channel numbers 2 - 13, where most cities' over-the-air stations reside.

Yep, see another good use for an old VCR that won't record or play tapes. You can still use it to tune in channels better. I swear I thought that old VCR was useless. Sure learned something there.

Our main tv just died recently. It was my father-in-law's and he gave it to us. A quirky, odd behaving TV. We had to watch cable/satellite channels thru the VCR. In other words, we could never watch and tape, on cable. Now that we have that capability, we don't now how to act. It's like learning all over again how it's supposed to be!

Mary

[Rainband]

DVR here. We love it..I love the "I control" feature. I never miss anything you can even tell it to remind you to watch a show.

[BEER980]

I have one with my sat dish. It can record 30 hours. It is nice to rewind live TV when you catch the end of a news story.

[StormCrazyIowan]

Sounds like something I need- I ALWAYS forget!

Nope....just here with a vcr that needs to be tucked under my bed!

[GalvestonDuck]

DVR with Dish Satellite here. Love it to death! There's a search mode where I can type in something like "Patty Duke" (of course!) and it will let me know if she's listed in anything for the next 10 days so I can record it. And I love being able to pause, rewind, and slow-forward live TV during football games so I can decide for myself if it was a fair in-bounds catch or not.