Digital Video Recorder

A year ago my husband and I signed up for digital cable. Our new digital cable package came with cable, phone service, and high-speed Internet. When we got our digital cable box, we were happy to find out that it was a digital video recorder. I had heard a loud about TiVo, but I did not want to pay the subscription price to have the service. Though a digital video recorder works a little differently than TiVo, it does everything that I needed to do.

Our digital video recorder is part of my cable box. When there is something that I want to watch at a later date, all I have to do is hit record on my guide. My digital video recorder will record that episode only, or it can record every episode in that time slot if I wish. It also has the option of sending that show to the VCR. I can save something for as long as I need, or I can have the machine erase it within a certain amount of time. All I have to do is specify what I wanted to do and it does it for me.

The first time we got a pay-per-view movie with our digital cable service, my husband try to record it with a digital video recorder. We were not exactly surprised when it didn’t work. However, it does record just about anything else. Right now my digital video recorder is almost full. This means I have to go back in and erase all of the things I don’t want, or move them all to VCR tape. I would like to get a DVD recorder, so that I can record the shows to DVD rather than VHS.

Perhaps the best feature of the digital video recorder is that I can pause live television. This means if the phone rings and I need to take the call, or if I have to leave the room for any reason, I can come back and pick up where I left off. My digital video recorder also allows me to rewind live TV if I have missed something. I’m very happy that I have it, and very glad that we signed up for the service. It takes very little effort to use my digital video recorder, and it gives me control over my television instead of the television controlling me. It’s worth its weight in gold.

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