08 April 2008Television
What's Andrew Watching or This Changes Everything

What's the best thing about my DVR, you ask? Well, I can now watch PTI when I come home. I don't know why ESPN only broadcasts the show in the middle of the day on the Left Coast, but it doesn't matter anymore. They can show the program in the middle of the fucking night for all I care, because I just record it and watch it when I get home (zipping through all the commercials, of course). Kornheiser and Wilbon yuck it up and keep me up to date on the sports world at the same time. Perfect.

What else do I have on my DVR, you ask? Besides the random movie here and there, here's what I got:

Versus
The Cyclsm

PBS
Frontline
Now
Nature
Globe Trekker
America's Test Kitchen

The Food Network
Boy Meets Grill
Jamie at Home
Barefoot Contessa
A Cook's Tour

HBO
Real Time with Bill Maher
The Wire

Discovery
Planet Earth
Man vs. Wild

AMC
Mad Men
Breaking Bad

Comedy Central
The Daily Show

Universal HD
Friday Night Lights

Animal Planet
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom

The Travel Channel
No Reservations

Of course, I don't watch all this stuff. Who has time? But's it's nice to be able to catch the shows when I want instead of where some pinhead network programmer decides I should. The only down part is that somewhere in the darkest depths of Comcast, they are selling my viewing habits to some marketeers and I'm more entrenched in the information state.

Posted by andrew at April 8, 2008 05:22 PM


Comments

J. Says:

We bought one roughly a year ago. It's a HD-DVR twin tuner. You can record not one, but two programs at the same time while watching a third, no less! Needless to say this has rarely happened but it's good to know that we can go hog wild.
As you say, it's great to have things on tap when YOU want to watch a program and with the added ability to breeze through commercials.

I recorded the live to air feed of the Chelsea V Fenerbache match this week (start time 4:30am no thank you very much) and watched it later that morning. What a waste of HD space. God we were turgid.

Anyway, congrats and welcome to the brave, new, ultra-convinient world of TV your way...and please remember to make sure that blanket is ALWAYS draped over your recliner.

They are watching and waiting.

April 10, 2008 04:39 PM




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