Sean was right. You dopes were wrong. Let's review

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On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:12:51 -0600, RicSeyler <ricseyler@SPAMgulf.net>
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>WOW.....I couldn't live without two tuners!
>
>It was a MAJOR selling point to me, hell I would
>love and use 3 or 4 tuners.
>
No doubt!


>MegaZone wrote:
>
>>
>>Dual tuners is a nice to have - not a selling point as far as I'm
>>concerned.
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>>

 

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"RicSeyler" <ricseyler@SPAMgulf.net> wrote in message
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> WOW.....I couldn't live without two tuners!
>
> It was a MAJOR selling point to me, hell I would
> love and use 3 or 4 tuners.
>
> MegaZone wrote:

I'm with you, Ric. I can record 5 shows and play one at the same time. Or
I can record 6 shows and watch a 7th one live. Believe it or not, I
actually had to do the latter on a couple of occasions.
Of course, I do it on tape, not PVR.

Norm Strong

 

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A poster named Norm Strong stated:
----"I'm with you Ric.I can record 5 shows a day and play back one at
the same time.Or I can record 6 shows and watch a 7th one live.
Believe it or not,I actually had to do the latter on a couple of
occasions.Of course,I do it on tape,not PVR."----


Reply:
I too have multi-channel recording capability also,but not as agile as
yours.But the KEY question is: No matter what your recording
capabilities are,do you actually find the TIME to watch all that you
have recorded? I am finding that a lot of what I archive keeps getting
pushed farther and farther behind on the viewing schedule.I have shows
from 2 years ago that I have not seen yet.Multi-channel recording is ok
I guess,but I find it is a mixed blessing.

 

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* SAC 441 wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:

[...]
> I too have multi-channel recording capability also,but not as agile as
> yours.But the KEY question is: No matter what your recording
> capabilities are,do you actually find the TIME to watch all that you
> have recorded? I am finding that a lot of what I archive keeps getting
> pushed farther and farther behind on the viewing schedule.I have shows
> from 2 years ago that I have not seen yet.Multi-channel recording is ok
> I guess,but I find it is a mixed blessing.

No one forceing you to watch it, the nice thing is you have the choice.
Why a mixed blessing, there is always the CLEAR button.

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"SAC 441" <SAC441@webtv.net> wrote in message
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>A poster named Norm Strong stated:
> ----"I'm with you Ric.I can record 5 shows a day and play back one at
> the same time.Or I can record 6 shows and watch a 7th one live.
> Believe it or not,I actually had to do the latter on a couple of
> occasions.Of course,I do it on tape,not PVR."----
>
>
> Reply:
> I too have multi-channel recording capability also,but not as agile as
> yours.But the KEY question is: No matter what your recording
> capabilities are,do you actually find the TIME to watch all that you
> have recorded? I am finding that a lot of what I archive keeps getting
> pushed farther and farther behind on the viewing schedule.I have shows
> from 2 years ago that I have not seen yet.Multi-channel recording is ok
> I guess,but I find it is a mixed blessing.

About half the shows I record are strictly speculation; the descriptions
pique my curiosity. We rarely end up watching them. About half of the
remaining shows turn out to be either reruns or crummy; we don't watch them
either. I would estimate that we end up with 1 hour of useful programming
for every 4 hours recorded.

Another category of recording is that done for others--friends that don't
have several VCRs. Those recordings frequently duplicate our own tape. It
turns out to be easier to record the program separately on another VCR so we
don't have to make a copy.

Norm Strong

 

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LOL
I saw or read something about a study done where
people are feeling pressure from their TiVo to keep
caught up with recorded programs.

SAC 441 wrote:

>
>Reply:
>I too have multi-channel recording capability also,but not as agile as
>yours.But the KEY question is: No matter what your recording
>capabilities are,do you actually find the TIME to watch all that you
>have recorded? I am finding that a lot of what I archive keeps getting
>pushed farther and farther behind on the viewing schedule.I have shows
>from 2 years ago that I have not seen yet.Multi-channel recording is ok
>I guess,but I find it is a mixed blessing.
>
>
>

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normanstrong@comcast.net wrote:
> About half the shows I record are strictly speculation; the descriptions
> pique my curiosity. We rarely end up watching them.

I have several wishlists recording anything that has certain actors and
performers, or certain words, so I can catch "60 minutes" when they
interview people at my favorite companies.

That leads to lots of strays. Or repeats of things that are aired a lot,
and show up in the Now Playing list every 30 days.

Or various talk shows, where I only want to watch the five minutes that
that person is on.

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MegaZone (newsREMOVE@THISmegazone.org) wrote in alt.video.ptv.tivo:
> Sean's problem, well, ONE of his problems, is that he thinks the world
> revolves around his likes and dislikes, and to him all that matters is
> HDTV.

On the other hand, wrapping TiVo around HD recording is pretty much the
killer product and works great...far better than any cable company supplied
DVR. TiVo is quite logically waiting for cable companies to stop fighting
the already-required CableCard rollout dates before they spend serious
money on the final stages of development of a CableCard TiVo.

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