View Poll Results: Do you have a Digital Recorder
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Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Aug 19th 2005, 5:09 am
#31
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Didn't the original TiVo boxes only record about 5 hours of TV?
As someone's already said, the 30-second-forward button is very nearly as good as automatic ad skipping, and doesn't require you to buy totally obsolete gear!
As someone's already said, the 30-second-forward button is very nearly as good as automatic ad skipping, and doesn't require you to buy totally obsolete gear!
Aug 19th 2005, 12:06 pm
#32
You Are All Diseased
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Location: Farnham, UK
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
We got ours through Dish Network when we moved along with Satellite in three rooms.
Couldn't live without DVR now. Way easier than VHS tapes and I love how you can grab a whole series with one touch of button.
Couldn't live without DVR now. Way easier than VHS tapes and I love how you can grab a whole series with one touch of button.
Aug 19th 2005, 12:59 pm
#33
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by dbj1000
TiVo is one of those rare inventions that make you wonder how you managed before it was invented. That and my iPod. And Sonos...
Aug 19th 2005, 1:06 pm
#34
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by rincewind
Couldn't live without DVR now. Way easier than VHS tapes and I love how you can grab a whole series with one touch of button.
Life is strange!!!!!
Aug 19th 2005, 1:08 pm
#35
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by ScousePete
Jesus Christ! Can't you just open the door and turn up the volume
Works for me - except I have blown out a few speakers in my time.
Aug 19th 2005, 2:48 pm
#36
Mr. Grumpy
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Location: Nashville, TN
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by Ray
Just imagine that ..I lived all these years without even a VCR for the past 5 years ...as there is nothing worth recording ...
Life is strange!!!!!
Life is strange!!!!!
I do like watching top gear though, and the occasional episode of friends
Aug 19th 2005, 5:24 pm
#37
You Are All Diseased
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by Ray
Just imagine that ..I lived all these years without even a VCR for the past 5 years ...as there is nothing worth recording ...
Life is strange!!!!!
Life is strange!!!!!
).It's useful to grab these so we can watch them the next day.
But, most of the TV available is crap. 150 channels of nothing but we have a few regular shows we watch so they get recorded to watch again if they were good.
Plus I like the fact I can pause a show at anytime to grab a smoke without missing anything
Aug 19th 2005, 6:11 pm
#38
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by rincewind
But, most of the TV available is crap. 150 channels of nothing but we have a few regular shows we watch so they get recorded to watch again if they were good.
Aug 19th 2005, 6:24 pm
#39
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Ad breaks are for taking a piss. I'd get to into something and piss my pants if I had a DVR.
Aug 19th 2005, 11:32 pm
#40
Arrogant ****
Joined: Jan 2004
Location: Plano, TX
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by Bob
Err...by default, but you could always stick in an extra hard drive, and hard drives being as cheap as they are, can get a 350gb drive for $180, and an average hour long tv show is only 350mb....so that's a lot of tele...
Aug 19th 2005, 11:38 pm
#41
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by ScousePete
Sonos - $1199 to listen to music in another room? Jesus Christ! Can't you just open the door and turn up the volume
We didn't have a music system of any sort other than the computer speakers, so the Sonos system is the first real stereo we've had since we got here.
Now we have a beautiful remote control with a 4" colour-screen and a scroll wheel to set up playlists, view album art and control the thousands of tracks stored on our computer, plus a couple of little wireless boxes that pump out great quality music across the house, stream audio from the TV to any other room, play internet radio across the house and much, much more.
It's not cheap, but it's more than worth it, and a fraction of the cost of wiring all our rooms for audio.
Aug 19th 2005, 11:41 pm
#42
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Best $1200 I've spent in years (well $1500 once you've added two sets of speakers)!
We didn't have a music system of any sort other than the computer speakers, so the Sonos system is the first real stereo we've had since we got here.
Now we have a beautiful remote control with a 4" colour-screen and a scroll wheel to set up playlists, view album art and control the thousands of tracks stored on our computer, plus a couple of little wireless boxes that pump out great quality music across the house, stream audio from the TV to any other room, play internet radio across the house and much, much more.
It's not cheap, but it's more than worth it, and a fraction of the cost of wiring all our rooms for audio.
We didn't have a music system of any sort other than the computer speakers, so the Sonos system is the first real stereo we've had since we got here.
Now we have a beautiful remote control with a 4" colour-screen and a scroll wheel to set up playlists, view album art and control the thousands of tracks stored on our computer, plus a couple of little wireless boxes that pump out great quality music across the house, stream audio from the TV to any other room, play internet radio across the house and much, much more.
It's not cheap, but it's more than worth it, and a fraction of the cost of wiring all our rooms for audio.
Wouldn't want the next door neighbors hogging the bandwidth.
Aug 19th 2005, 11:44 pm
#43
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by rincewind
Just make sure your network is secure with all those wireless signals bouncing around
Wouldn't want the next door neighbors hogging the bandwidth.
Wouldn't want the next door neighbors hogging the bandwidth.
Still, the boxes do act as wireless bridges for WiFi, so you can hook up a remote PC to a Sonos box and get a broadband connection
Aug 19th 2005, 11:57 pm
#44
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
So from the poll: 19 of us have DVRs but only 3 knows what it does.
Last edited by anotherlimey; Aug 20th 2005 at 12:05 am.
Aug 20th 2005, 12:01 am
#45
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Re: Do you have a replayTV or Tivo ?
Originally Posted by dbj1000
Still, the boxes do act as wireless bridges for WiFi, so you can hook up a remote PC to a Sonos box and get a broadband connection