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| WHY THE PVR ROCKS MY SOCKS | |
The Personal Video Recorder from Rogers has been rocking my socks steadily for over three months now. Here's why: • The tuner works the same way as your usual cable tuner. Highlight a program and hit record. That's it. • Record one channel while watching another or record two channels at once while watching a third, pre-recorded program. Since we pretty much always have something worth watching, we never get stuck watching what we record. • You can select to record the same program regularly, either "record this program on this channel in any time slot" or "record this program in this time slot only". One button pressed and you record your favourite shows every week, or any time they appear on that specific channel. • Up to 50 hours of tape. I had the full seasons of both Survivor and The Amazing Race taped before deciding they were pretty much crap this season and got rid of them all. • You don't have to watch things in the order you tape them. This sounds obvious but it's one of the simplest improvements over the VCR. No more figuring out what is on what tape and fast forwarding through programs to watch one you want. For those who like renting DVDs of TV series, this is also awesome because we may not watch Lost, for example, for several weeks, and boom, back to back to back we're all caught up. • With no commercials. The triple fast forward gets through commercial breaks in less than 20 seconds. • It may sound like we watch more TV but I actually think we watch less of it, and the TV we do watch is quality stuff. Instead of watching 2 hours of dumb gardening or home improvement shows between 7 and 9 just because there's nothing on, we watch all of the Daily Show episodes taped from last week. • We do watch less TV because, apart from trying to catch our favourite shows, we don't get sucked into bad TV. And, with so many of my friends tapped into what's good on TV, we don't miss out on stumbling on new shows from channel surfing. We tape an episode and, if we like it, we just keep taping it. • Unlinke the Tivo, it won't record anything I don't ask it too. That kind of technology creeps me out a little. TV I'm watching every week: •
Lost Seriously, to be able to watch these kinds of shows whenever you flip your TV on, whether it's a Tuesday or a Friday or on the hour or ten minutes past, it's fantastic. TV you want and when you want it is so worth the extra $19 a month. |
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