What's on your DVR?

[Gemini Cricket]

No DVR.
In fact, no cable TV at all.

[Kevy Baby]

There is a bunch of crap on our TiVo that will soon disappear because I need to do a hard reset (which wipes out everything). Instead of listing all of the crap, I will tell you the things I will be dumping to DVD before the reboot:

• Tex the Passive Aggressive Gunslinger (a short from IMC that TiVo caught for us when we let it record suggestions)
• Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner
• Freebird the Movie
• Probably some other stuff that I can't think of

[€uroMeinke]

I can't even get through the podcasts I subscribe to - I suspect I would be constantly buying bigger hard drives.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I didn't say it saves time, I say you don't waste as much time. It allows you to fit TV into what would otherwise be down time rather than scheduling other things around TV.

Fair distinction. Except with me I move the TV into what should be productive time (weekend days and early eavening) and out of my down time (prime time and late evening).

I actually get things done during a Saturday afternoon because there is nothing worth watching on TV.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

• Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner

It is probably best if you just let that one slide by as a missed opportunity. I watched about 20 minutes of it and it was truly painful.

The Comedy Central roasts definitely have no redeeming value and are an insulting reminder of the old Dean Martin ones.

[Babette]

I just got a new DVR on Saturday. I must have it for the new fall season. I start off watching anything and everything new (which requires a couple time blocks of *gasp* VCR to get 3 shows). After two or three weeks I weed it down based on what I find interesting. Last year the networks seemed to weed a lot out quicker than that.

Waaaa! I miss Veronica Mars, but at least we will see some of the actors on other shows. Veronica on Heroes, Logan on Moonlight and Piz on Private Practice. Remember the great line in the spin-off set-up on Grey's Anatomy? The ladies watched Piz/Dell leave to go surfing at lunch and one says something like, "The show repeats in an hour, only it's wet." I'm not sure I want to watch the show, but he will make me look. (I'm over Grey's, which jumped the shark when Meridith had no side effects from temporarily dying/drowning/hypothermia.)

My regular list: Original Law & Order (back in January - duhn duhn), Family Guy, Shark, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Bones, House, The Unit, Smallville, Top Chef, L&O: SVU, CSI (original).

[Alex]

Oh, and while I don't have a DVR, I did watch the entire summer seasons of The Closer and Saving Grace via On Demand. Not timeless storage until I watch, but 4 weeks is plenty of time to allow timeshifting and the commercials are only five seconds long.

[Babette]

I would have had The Closer and Psych if I had my DVR sooner.

[Stan4dSteph]

Currently there's a bunch of stuff on my DVR that I would like to get OFF of it so I can edit it down on my computer. Mostly broadcasts of U2 performances. Unfortunately there's no way to do that easily without just dumping onto a VHS tape, so it sits there taking up space.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Grumble.

So it turns out we had a Season Pass for "Survivor: Fiji", not "Survivor". Curse you CBS for embedding a variable in your show title when consumer DVR UI's aren't exactly offering regular expression searching at this point (though I don't doubt someone's got a Linux DVR solution that does). There are ways around it (which I will now have to do), but it would seem to be in CBS's best interest to just keep the title the same across seasons so it can be recorded using defaults without the extra steps of doing a keyword-based subscription.

Ah well, the upshot is that I thought to do a paranoia check a couple minutes in and caught that it wasn't recording. Just missed some of the intro hype (whcih I like to watch on Episode 1), but I can catch that online tomorrow.