Tested out the DVR, and it works fine. I'm able to subscribe to anything, and it will record all episodes, even giving me the option of only saving the last "N" episodes. I wish I could only record, say, the 10pm Daily Show or 1030pm Seinfeld every night instead of recording it four times a day when it might conflict with something else I want to record without me knowing.
I would also like a quick-advance (30-sec skip) button, but all this has is a roughly-double-speed fast forward plus faster speeds with extra pushes of the buttons. I am able to record one thing while watching something else, and that's nice. The first thing I recorded while testing was a random episode of Star Trek.
When I started to watch the recording, I was just going to watch a few minutes to see if it was working, and they had run across an old derelict Earth ship, then Spock said, "Captain, the ship's registry says it is the Botany Bay." I immediately heard Chekov in my mind (from the 2nd movie, "Wrath of Khan"), "Botany Bay! Oh no!" I had never seen the Khan episode, so I sat down and watched the whole thing. Well, it was neat to watch, but my god what horrible acting and f/x.
Oh well, for now, we have subscriptions to "Baby Story", "ER", "7th Heaven", "Seinfeld", "The Daily Show" and "World Poker Tour". I'm considering looking into recording some premier league soccer from Fox Sports World during the wee hours, but I don't know when the heck I'd find time to watch it.
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Seems odd to me that you have to record all episodes of the show. Maybe the cable company hasn't quite caught up to TiVo after all. TiVo actually tracks episode numbers and it will notify you if something is a repeat and will not capture it if there is already a copy on disk. I believe that it asks during programming if you want to capture repeats that have been deleted.
Posted by: Seattle Astronomer on May 14, 2004 09:37 AM