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Miracle: My DVR is clear
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Thu, 5 Jan 2006 15:26:50 -0800
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Milhouse Van Houten...
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Let this moment in history be marked: For the first time ever, my DVR is
completely empty. All 41 hours and 2 minutes are available for future
clutter.
Quiet Desperation...
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That always happens to be around year end. Too many repeats and
premptions.
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David...
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Something I'll likely never do is get through all the DVDs I have.
Then there's everything I've downloaded. And the stack of books I've
David...
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Join the 21st century, Square.
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been meaning to find time to read. And the videogames I haven't
David...
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Figures you'd say that. I don't suppose you set aside any time during
the day for some serious thinking.
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David...
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I'm sure that nothing sets off a round of furious bidding like a book
about an apartment building.
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touched in a year. Is it wrong to complain about there being too many
entertainment options? I feel like I should think of what my parents
and grandparents had or didn't have to fill their free time and feel
ashamed.
cloud dreamer...
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LOL. In the 60's and 70's, we actually went outside and played with friends.
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Milhouse Van Houten...
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I hear you there. I don't have a video game problem, but there's always more
to read than I can handle (both online and off), and the movies I've
downloaded are so far beyond me (and my bursting drive) that it's completely
hopeless. I've seen hardly any very new movies because I know not to
download them anymore. I'd have to watch 2 a day for the whole year to get
through what I have, and that's not going to happen. It's depressing and a
little wrong.
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To be accurate, there was one other time (since purchase) that it was clear,
but that's when last spring it decided to reboot itself and silently wipe
the contents of the drive for no apparent reason. The drive physically
checked out OK, so it was some kind of bizarre (and hopefully one-time)
logical malfunction, probably a bug in the OS.
But now that the networks are about geared up for a full schedule again, the
freedom is near an end, and it's back to the grind. I almost prefer the
reruns.
David...
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I enjoyed having the two weeks with nothing to watch. It's not that
I'm not awaiting new episodes of "Lost" and "24" but they're only
doing 22 or so episodes a year anyway and I don't need to get them all
David...
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Plus episode 22 always ends with a great cliffhanger.
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at once. It's nice to have a break.
Milhouse Van Houten...
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September-November, February, and May are not my favorite months. December,
January, and March/April are much more like it. I wouldn't mind the networks
taking their cue from England and cable and doing shorter seasons with
longer breaks. Less is more, and also enough.
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David...
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And if you're good you'll go to heaven, where all your Netflix choices
are always available and you get to watch them on the biggest
big-screen tv ever.
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Some might ask why I have only -- gasp -- a 40GB drive. Well, the answer
should be obvious: Whatever size drive you have, the natural tendency is to
fill it. If I had a 200GB drive, I would fill it. And there would be no
coming back from a drive that size. A small drive keeps you selective and
actually watching what you record.
cloud dreamer...
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I have 180 hours on my HD-PVR. I've never come close to filling that -
though the two football games this weekend will fill up half of it on HD.
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Rob Jensen...
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If you had a 200GB drive, you could record the same number of shows
that you do now at waaaaay better resolution.
Milhouse Van Houten...
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Not on mine (ReplayTV) with analog cable and an analog TV. They look exactly
the same regardless of quality setting. When I first starting using it, for
months I just used the highest quality setting, until I ran out of space and
went to the middle setting and then the lowest setting, where I realized I
couldn't tell them apart.
It's the Xvid's I download -- for the stuff that demands it, like "Lost" or
"24," or the stuff that both demands it and I couldn't get otherwise, like
"The L Word" and "Deadwood" and "Spooks" etc., that's a quantum leap. Those
are at a higher resolution, taken from digital cable or satellite, and are
played on my monitor. It's hard to tell them apart from DVD's.
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-- Rob
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timeOday...
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I believe it. I recently buckled down and deleted a movie that had been
sitting on my PVR for just over a year. I didn't want to watch it, but
I wanted to want to watch it.
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