I Love My New Digital Video Recorder

The DVR has to be the greatest add-on to my TV. Ever since I got hooked up with DirecTV and their new HD DVR, my television viewing habits have been altered.

Here is an example.

If you haven’t ever watched television with a digital video recorder, or a TiVo, you don’t know what you are missing. You have complete control over all the programming you decide to watch. If you are watching a program, and all of the sudden you realize that you are starving, you can just hit the pause button. Go make your food, and come back when you’re ready, even if it takes 30 minutes!

Then when you start watching your show again, you will have the added bonus of skipping through any commercials that come up. Pass right through them each time they pop up! I don’t think I’ve seen a full commercial in three months.

Now here is how to get the most out of a DVR. I don’t even like to channel surf anymore. I simply set up my DVR to record the shows I like. Even with watching football, I set the DVR to record, then I sit down about an hour after the game actually starts. That way, I can skip through all the commercials, and watch a football game in about half the time.

Finally, I can always see new episodes of my favorite series. For example, new episodes are coming out soon of Friday Night Lights on DirecTV. On the digital video recorder, all I have to do is select the record series choice, and every time the show airs, my DVR finds it day or night, and saves it for me. I can set it to save all of the episodes, or just the first-run editions. All of this in beatiful hi def too!

Then, when I have time to watch television, all of my shows are ready and waiting there for me to watch. No need to rearrange my schedule around the networks, not with my new TiVo and Direct TV.