Respect the DVR people

[lykaon78]

Non-DVR people drive me crazy.

Today the wife and I went hiking in the Red River Gorge in Kentucky with some friends (Side note: Visit here if you get a chance its just beautiful). Parents were at home watching our daughter. The Ohio State & Penn State game was being DVRed.

15 minutes before he get home I call home to instruct my parents not to let me know what happened with the game. I'd avoided finding out the score for the entire trip home and dinner. Here is the phone conversation that follows:

Me: Hello mom, whatever you do don't tell me the score of the game.
Mom: Can I tell that they won?
Me: Nevermind, we'll be home soon <click>

Sorry to rant but for Pete's sake have some common sense.

 

[sdifox]

You failed... why did you call in the first place?

 

[da loser]

what does that have to do with a DVR?

 

[TheVrolok]

I avoid human contact as much as possible went I want to avoid hearing a score. Complete isolation is the only way.

 

[dguy6789]

Yep, people who spoil stuff suck.

 

[Iron Woode]

You failed... why did you call in the first place?

precisely

 

[RoloMather]

Owned.

 

[RoloMather]

Yep, people who spoil stuff suck.

Snape killed Dumbledore was funny.

 

[TruePaige]

Snape killed Dumbledore was funny.

That it was.

 

[Barfo]

wow your mom is stupid

 

[techs]

The DVR is the single greatest device no one thinks the need or want.
Until they get one.
Then they wonder how they lived with out.

 

[sdifox]

The DVR is the single greatest device no one thinks the need or want.
Until they get one.
Then they wonder how they lived with out.

Err, VCR was working ok.

 

[rudeguy]

The DVR is the single greatest device no one thinks the need or want.
Until they get one.
Then they wonder how they lived with out.

I warn people that dvrs are like microwaves

 

[techs]

Err, VCR was working ok.

You can't compare a dvr to a vcr.
DVR, two shows at once.
Chase playback.
Record up to 80 hours.
Fast forward speed x200 times vcr
Picture quality is HD
No changing tapes.

VCR is pwned by DVR

 

[TwiceOver]

Spoiler

haha

 

[Mike Gayner]

The DVR is the single greatest device no one thinks the need or want.
Until they get one.
Then they wonder how they lived with out.

Except those of us who watch <1 hour of TV a week.

 

[techs]

Spoiler

haha

Thats seriously awesome.

 

[sdifox]

You can't compare a dvr to a vcr.
DVR, two shows at once.
Chase playback.
Record up to 80 hours.
Fast forward speed x200 times vcr
Picture quality is HD
No changing tapes.

VCR is pwned by DVR

Obviously DVR is technologically superior to VCR. But your original message makes it sound like it's revolutionary when it is just evolutionary.

Time shifting is really its forte and that is being covered by content provider now. Obviously not all the channels have time shifting capabilities, but it is there.

I am not obsessed enough about tv to record. Sporting event is even more ridiculous to record. There is very little chance of you escaping learning the result unless you go dark as in turn everything off.

 

[techs]

Obviously DVR is technologically superior to VCR. But your original message makes it sound like it's revolutionary when it is just evolutionary.

Time shifting is really its forte and that is being covered by content provider now. Obviously not all the channels have time shifting capabilities, but it is there.

I am not obsessed enough about tv to record. Sporting event is even more ridiculous to record. There is very little chance of you escaping learning the result unless you go dark as in turn everything off.

Tomorrow I am going to record the Pats-Dolphins.
I will be in my shop working for the first hour of the game. Then I will watch it by fast forwarding thru commercials.

 

[rh71]

you know what gets me? My RSS feed (through Opera)! Damn thing pops up in the corner when a reporter for the team (who runs a blog) posts the final score soon after the games that I had been recording to watch start to finish - usually I can't do that uninterrupted 7pm-930pm most nights. AHHHHHHHHHH, can't NOT look at popups.

 

[John P]

Sorry, I just don't understand how people can watch a sporting event that is already over and get excited about it. I mean, it's over......history....

 

[Pepsi90919]

What the fuck is a non dvr person

 

[Hacp]

Sorry, I just don't understand how people can watch a sporting event that is already over and get excited about it. I mean, it's over......history....

Well technically, all live tv is over before you even watch it.

 

[Anubis]

What the fuck is a non dvr person

someone who does not own one

 

[Mike Gayner]

Sorry, I just don't understand how people can watch a sporting event and get excited about it.

Fixed for you.