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Post by Chris on Jan 11, 2007 17:14:10 GMT -5
"i recorded Dazed and Confused the other day and i'm gonna keep it on there until it decides to take a walk on me one day."
I've got the same thing going on with a documentary on the rise of Latin baseball players called Viva Baseball, and the Mantle HBO documentary.
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Post by elliejay21 on Jan 11, 2007 18:31:19 GMT -5
I was very disappointed with myself when I moved, because I had a whole bunch of stuff on my box that I never got around to watchng, and I lost it all when my cable got hooked up out here. Apparently the idiots at fuckingcablevision will not just give you a new card for your box when you transfer to a new system within fuckingcablevisionland, you have to trade in the entire box for an identical piece of equipment.
ChO, I have not been watching the weekend episodes, but I have no choice about recording them if I want to get both daily episodes during the week.
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Post by Chris on Jan 12, 2007 2:12:07 GMT -5
I wonder if the reason that Dylan returned to the show was because his love interest got better looking. Vanessa Marcil was a huge upgrade from crooked-jawed-Jack-Skellington-teeth Shannon Doherty and bug-eyed Rebecca Gayheart.
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Post by Ms. Jericho on Jan 12, 2007 19:39:48 GMT -5
I don't recall and episode of Supernatural featuring Chupacabras. You're making that up.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 7, 2007 22:53:59 GMT -5
Right now I am watching something I DVR'd off the Travel Channel..."The Wild Seas of Iceland."
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 0:33:32 GMT -5
Tom and Marc, you'll be proud that I still have on my DVR the 2004 GOP Convention. W is introduced by a 9/11 montage featuring a shot of our fair section thats clear as a bell. I don't rememeber if it was the post9/11 first game back or the World Series that year. I know I can see myself as well as a bunch of others on it.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 8:44:24 GMT -5
I dont think I will be one of those fellows who will end up keeping something I treasure on the DVR. I need to clear the space. No, I wont delete - I will simply move it over to tape for posterity. In fact, next week I am on vacation and I have about 10 hours of stuff thats sitting on there that I am going to move over to tape.
Cheers to your DVR saves, though. Good stuff.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 8, 2007 8:59:14 GMT -5
I haven't got to a point where I have enough keepers on that DVR to worry about space. Hell, I still have some Yankees Magazine show with Vinny on it that he never saw because he forgot to DVR it.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 14:33:35 GMT -5
That 4 hour block of the GOP Convention is a source of argument in my house. My wife has a ton of shit she records daily and covets that extra space.
I'm so burnt it never dawned on me to tape it. I'll just have to move my VCR to the DVR set. DUH.
Now I hear that TW has large hard drives on the newer DVRs that allow for more than 35 hours of taping. Any know about this?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 14:36:46 GMT -5
I dont know anything of what you speak.
All I know is my DVR box holds 100 hours of programming, and it costs me like $10 a month for it. For the last couple of weeks I have been consistently hanging between 60-75% of capacity. I will do some clearing out next week, while on vacation at home.
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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 8, 2007 14:37:20 GMT -5
You can only record 35 hours? I'd be in big trouble with that. My box holds over 100 hours, and I get to the 99% full point every so often, if I'm too busy to watch TV for a couple of weeks...
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 14:49:46 GMT -5
100 HOURS!!!!
HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THESE MIRACLE BOXES....I GOT MINE IN 04....I FEEL RIPPED...100 HOURS, REALLY
Are you guys Time Warner?? WTF?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 14:54:29 GMT -5
I'm Cablevision, but I would imagine Time Warner has the same options. It may cost you a couple of dollars more a month, but geez. LOL! Yeah, 100 hours, my friend. Time for you to do some poking around, and box-swappin.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 15:01:27 GMT -5
I feel like I've been playing Pong all this time and now come to find out there is the Playstation3.
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Post by jwmcc on Feb 8, 2007 15:03:44 GMT -5
Hey Marc, there's this new invention that came out not too long ago. It's called the "telephone" You can talk to someone else from long distances! Jw
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 15:07:26 GMT -5
LOL @ 35 hours. I think I have DVRd that amount in a single day once or twice.
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 15:25:27 GMT -5
I am shamed. My office is rollicking with laughter at my meger recording abilities.....oh there gonna be hell to pay!!
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Post by elliejay21 on Feb 8, 2007 15:32:07 GMT -5
LOL!
I'm Cablevision (BOOOO!) and I had to inexplicably change equipment when I moved in July, but the first DVR box I got from Cablevision in Hoboken was identical to my current box. I went DVR as soon as it was available in my area, which I believe was Spring 2005 or thereabouts...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 15:33:47 GMT -5
LOL again @ 35 hours. And you have 4 of them permanantly blocked off for the convention. So you actually have 31 hours. LOL!
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 16:20:49 GMT -5
This from TW Answers on Demand:
You can easily record shows while you're watching them or set up future shows to record. Record up to 50 hours so you never miss your favorite shows.
This from TW Customer Service Rep Tyrone (really):
"how many hours is my DVR?" "You got 35 hours sir, that's alot." "My friends say they have 100 hours." "Wow, thats alot." "Well??" "Well you don't have that." "I know, I want it." "Hold, please." 5 minutes pass "Sir, my supervisor says they don't make a box like that." "So all my friends are liars." "maybe." "MAYBE?? Can I talk to your supervisor?" "Hold, please." 3 minutes pass SUPERVISOR VERAS "Sir, none of our units are for 100 hours." "none?" "Well except the HD box, which is for 20 hours of HD or 90 of regular TV." "Well Cablevision apparently has one for 100 hours." "I don't know about that sir. 35 hours seems like more than enough to me." "Why then does it say online that I can record up to 50 hours." "It says that?" "Yes, up to 50." "But it doesn't guarantee 50." "Thanks, have a nice day."
100% verbatum
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 16:25:05 GMT -5
What a screwy conversation.
If you go to Cablevision.com, you can see that IO digital customers can get a box that records 100 hours. Mine sure does, right now I am backlogging 70 hours of stuff on there since I started recording at the end of December.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 16:27:26 GMT -5
From the Cablevision website.... Feature Summary With the touch of a button you can: Record 1 show while you are watching another Record 2 shows at the same time while you watch a 3rd show you recorded earlier Record and store up to 100 hours of standard-definition and up to 24 hours of High-definition programmingPause live TV for up to 1 hour without missing a minute Use Instant Replay to replay the previous few seconds of the show you are watching Access and Play Back your recorded programs Watch two programs at the same time using the Picture-in-Picture feature www.optimum.com/io/dvr/dvr.jsp
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Post by kingdzbws on Feb 8, 2007 16:33:40 GMT -5
Oh I don't doubt you one bit T. The fact of somone accusing my sources of being Liars, telling me in that, in essence I should be happy with what I got, not knowing their own product, and using advertising thats deceptive. 35 is not 50. UP TO but NOT all the way UP TO 50.
And I wish you could have heard the voices of the two brainiacs I got on the phone.
I feel like sending them each a lifetime's supply of TRIM SPA!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 8, 2007 16:38:54 GMT -5
Oh, I was in no way picking a fight. I'm with ya.
I am stunned and appalled at Time Warner cables antics, and I am happy I am no longer a user of their fare.
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Post by Furious D on Feb 9, 2007 0:02:42 GMT -5
Those people at Time Warner are out of their minds. They have been making 100 hr DVR's for years. The only difference from your DVR box is the hard drive is bigger. The rule of thumb is about one gigabyte of hard drive space per hour of recording. The 35 hour DVR has a 40 gig hard drive, while the 100 hour has a 120 gig drive.
The latest Directv DVR I've gotten has sick capacity. I can record up to 40 hrs of HDTV or up to 250 hours of standard TV. When I got it a few months ago, I said there was no way I'd ever need that much space, but somehow it's already 75% full.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 9, 2007 8:06:17 GMT -5
You find with the more space you have, the further you will reach out to pluck something off of the vine. I am taping things I have even lukewarm interest in, when before I would not have given it a second thought. The best thing about this DVR for me is that it has ended up seeing me watch a Hell of a lot more documentary style programs I had a passing interest in, that I ended up enjoying quite a lot.
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Post by baldvinny on Feb 9, 2007 13:39:20 GMT -5
balls, can you get me a copy of that yankee magazine somehow?
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 9, 2007 13:43:15 GMT -5
He wants you to go over and watch it.
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Post by MSBNYY on Feb 9, 2007 13:54:38 GMT -5
I'm definitely going to get it to you. That's the only reason I kept it. If you remember, bring a blank tape the next time I see you. I don't know if I have one since I rarely use a VCR.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Feb 9, 2007 14:35:17 GMT -5
Balls, go buy one. They cost like 2 dollars.
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