When You Like Two Shows On In The Same Time Slot (episodes, days)
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I reckon certain age sets like me that don't know how to hook up a vcr, dvd or dvr when the dang TVs are hanging up on a wall. Nobody around here seems to know either and calling a local electronic store they want $400 to run "all the wires, equipment & labor". No way live TV for me then.
Aw. I would do it for you for a beer.
It i really simple.
If you already have cable, the company can send a tech out to do it for you.
I will dvr everything to watch later as I hate watching commercials. A dvr is the best invention of all time, imo
Agree! I was on vacation for 2 weeks, so I DVR'ed everything I watch and now I can watch my shows at my leisure. I also will DVR certain show that I know have too many commercials and then watch the show later.
[quote=Jaxson;35684074]I reckon certain age sets like me that don't know how to hook up a vcr, dvd or dvr when the dang TVs are hanging up on a wall. Nobody around here seems to know either and calling a local electronic store they want $400 to run "all the wires, equipment & labor". No way live TV for me then. [/QUOTE
Nice thing is we do not need all the extra stuf hooked up when using on demand.
Aw. I would do it for you for a beer.
It i really simple.
If you already have cable, the company can send a tech out to do it for you.
My dad is 74 and has hooked it all up himself.
OK I just looked up a round trip ticket from Dallas to Indy $487 plus the beer let me think. Thank you but you're not any cheaper than the local store.
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Originally Posted by Jaxson
I reckon certain age sets like me that don't know how to hook up a vcr, dvd or dvr when the dang TVs are hanging up on a wall. Nobody around here seems to know either and calling a local electronic store they want $400 to run "all the wires, equipment & labor". No way live TV for me then. [/QUOTE
Nice thing is we do not need all the extra stuf hooked up when using on demand.
That would warrant paying a cable bill right? I do have Netflix so I can get caught up on old series that part is cool.
I don't watch a lot of tv, I tend to follow only one or two shows per season. But now that it seems between cable and network television that it's a new season 4 or 5 times a year, invariably, the season finale of one of my shows airs the same time and day as the season premiere of another.
In which case, I watch the one my husband will watch with me, and stream the other on demand the next night.
My cable company would give me the dvr, but I keep refusing because I don't want to deal with the learning curve, and it's not worth it for the one or two hours per week of tv I do want to watch.
Okay to answer the question that was actually asked, up until recently I didn't have the means to record a show so I had to really agonize over which I liked best and hope I could watch the other in reruns or order it sometime in the future on NetFlix.
Now that I can watch one and record another I usually go by the following criteria. If one show is in a series and the other is not, the series show will win out. That gets watched and the other will get recorded. If neither is in a series but one is longer than the other, I will record the longest and watch the shortest freeing me to watch another show sooner. If both are the same length and both are series, I will just watch the one I like a bit better and ditto it they are not in a series.
My cable company would give me the dvr, but I keep refusing because I don't want to deal with the learning curve, and it's not worth it for the one or two hours per week of tv I do want to watch.
Not much of a learning curve to operate a DVR. I bet someone at the cable company would be happy to walk you through it. The DVRs these days are built to be "user friendly".
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