WhyILoveTiVo.com contest

[Bruce Easton]

On 4/11/14 12:58 PM, Fairlight wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:34:44PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
>> On 4/11/2014 11:32 AM, Fairlight wrote:
>>> Besides the fact I only have Cable Broadband and not Cable TV (by choice),
>>> I wouldn't find enough time to -get- to the stuff I deferred.  My Netflix
>>> queue is 119+ items long, many of them series.
>>>
>>> If I defer watching something, it takes ages to get watched.  I'd fill the
>>> HD and need to sacrifice something in order to tape new stuff I'd never get
>>> to.  Worked that way with VCRs.
>> You can hook up external USB HDs.  Just hook up a several TB drive,
>> and you're good to go.  :-)
> It's like deferring non-essential email.  Eventually, I end up with several
> thousand messages that I never read, and just archive somewhere.  You
> think you'll get to it, but the reality is, you never will.   I'd just end
> up buying more and more hard drives.
>
> [..]
I think it was before Tivo was popular when I bought my first Panasonic 
DVR.  Not sure what size the hard disk was on those, but I'm sure much 
smaller than Tivo units today.  I still am using a second-generation 
Panasonic unit with hard drive and DVD recorder that's fully functional 
for over ten years now.  It sits next to the cable box DVR, but any 
more, I find I'm not using either one that much to record for later 
watching.   More so now, I'm recording OTA HD to my PC with this little 
box that plugs into the router, and then using the EyeTV program as a 
viewer or as editor for things I may want to keep.  Of course you're 
restricted to a handful of stations and need to be in an area where you 
can pick them up, but I seem to get better HD for network and PBS type 
channels than through the cable.  And yes, at 5-8 GB per show, unless 
you publish it down to 720p, if you keep many of them, you can easily 
become a steady customer for USB drives. :)