slo’s TUESDAY 11/15 poll - DVR

[MamaMermaid]

No cable/satellite in our house (we love streaming services) but my mom has one and uses it daily! It truly is cool - technology is awesome.

 

[kanerf]

I do not use the physical DVR anymore. Most of my streaming services come with a cloud-based DVR so that I can record anything I want. This is particularly useful on Youtube TV which allows unlimited recordings.

 

[mamamary]

We use it all the time. Something records at least every day on our DVR.

Same

 

[soccerdad72]

I guess technically, with YouTube TV, it's not a 'DVR', per se, because it's all cloud-based, but we watch most of our shows through the Library on there.

 

[ronandannette]

We DVR everything - commercials are for chumps! It’s especially appreciated for sports. I kid you not, I watched the entire 2021 Summer Olympics on fast-forward - it was almost two hundred hours of coverage.

We often prefer to DVR things when they’re broadcast, rather than wait for the on-demand to catch up, which can sometimes take several days.

 

[Dan Murphy]

We have TiVo's (newest models), the inventor of the DVR. We love them. I use it mostly, though I do not to watch much TV, mostly a wasteland, IMO. I have about a half dozen One Passes set up, picks up whenever a key word is found. It records Colbert and Meyers every evening, best evening humor. I'll watch those mostly for the great monologues. It will find all NHRA racing, Mecum Auto Auction programs for me. I do have the keyword Disney set as a One Pass, but with my only streaming service, D+ (well, Prime also), I delete most of those. When I see a special program that CNN is doing some days out, I'll hit the button so it records those. A couple series on the History Channel. That channel is a mere shadow of its former self, but they still have a few excellent series now and then..

One thing I like that TiVo added somewhat recently is that on many of the channels, they actually have people at TiVo viewing programs and deleting the commercials, so when I am watching, let's say Colbert a few days later, when it comes to a commercial break, a little notice shows faintly in the upper left, indicating Commercial Skip. No fast forwarding needed. It just skips the commercials and goes to the next scene after what would have been the commercial break. That is great!

Oh, and the TiVo remote. Nothing like it, so simple and intuitive.

 

[MIGrandma]

We don't record anything anymore.
We have Hulu......things we record are saved in the cloud.............which is nice. We can watch on different devices. Even a phone. Nice for travel

Same for us. We used to have DirecTV but the cost was getting ridiculous. Switched to Hulu and love it.

 

[tvguy]

Yup, we use it.

We have two DVRs
We have two DVD players
We have two VHS recorders/players. They have been in use A LOT since we retired as my wife is transferring 35 years of home videos from VHS and VHS-C to DVD then uploading them to a cloud.

 

[BrianL]

I use it, but mine is now all cloud based through a streaming app - there is no physical DVR present.

 

[mrodgers]

We have TiVo's (newest models), the inventor of the DVR. We love them. I use it mostly, though I do not to watch much TV, mostly a wasteland, IMO. I have about a half dozen One Passes set up, picks up whenever a key word is found. It records Colbert and Meyers every evening, best evening humor. I'll watch those mostly for the great monologues. It will find all NHRA racing, Mecum Auto Auction programs for me. I do have the keyword Disney set as a One Pass, but with my only streaming service, D+ (well, Prime also), I delete most of those. When I see a special program that CNN is doing some days out, I'll hit the button so it records those. A couple series on the History Channel. That channel is a mere shadow of its former self, but they still have a few excellent series now and then..

One thing I like that TiVo added somewhat recently is that on many of the channels, they actually have people at TiVo viewing programs and deleting the commercials, so when I am watching, let's say Colbert a few days later, when it comes to a commercial break, a little notice shows faintly in the upper left, indicating Commercial Skip. No fast forwarding needed. It just skips the commercials and goes to the next scene after what would have been the commercial break. That is great!

Oh, and the TiVo remote. Nothing like it, so simple and intuitive.

TiVo was the first successful commercial DVR, but they didn't invent it. TiVo was released at CES in 1999 along with ReplayTV. DVR was invented in the Stanford University Computer Science department in 1998. The prototype was demoed to companies such as Sony, Apple, and Intel.

 

[Dan Murphy]

TiVo was the first successful commercial DVR, but they didn't invent it. TiVo was released at CES in 1999 along with ReplayTV. DVR was invented in the Stanford University Computer Science department in 1998. The prototype was demoed to companies such as Sony, Apple, and Intel.

Ok

 

[prairie_girl]

I still use ours almost daily. I have so many things saved on it, and I’ll be really upset if it breaks and I lose it all.

 

[lanejudy]

I do DVR 1 weekly show right now and occasionally a special or something. My family uses it frequently...well, they record a lot of stuff but whether they actually go back to watch much of it is a different story. Every once in a while I have to go through and delete a ton of old unwatched shows -- for some reason I'm the only one who knows how to do that.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I love it because it's set up for things like Call the Midwife, which I forget about, and then get all excited when a new season starts taping.

Yes!! It's so nice when something I enjoyed last season just starts appearing again.

Tape shows I want to watch and fall asleep trying to watch

This is one of the main reasons I use it too. - A lot of programs end later than I want to be up! (Or two programs I like are on different channels at the same time.)

Plus, being able to fast-forward over the commercials (and the sports scores on the news ) is a huge benefit.

I keep special movies in it

I do a bit of this as well. I call them comfort movies, and sometimes put them on for background or to fall sleep.

 

[GAN]

YouTubeTV offers the unlimited DVR so I record everything and anything I might be interested in.....

 

[CynBeth]

No we just watch shows we missed with On Demand or go on the network’s app on the Ipad.

 

[fla4fun]

I lost my DVR when I dropped Dish and went back to using an antenna. So far, there have only been a couple shows that I have had to stay up late/get up early for. If it became a huge problem, I do still have a VCR that I could hook up, but I don’t see the need right now.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We have DVR with YouTubeTV. I use it to record a few shows. Nobody else in my house does. I like to record a program and then watch it later so I don't have to put up with commercials.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We have DVR and we pretty much use it on a daily basis!

 

[slo]

We DVR everything - commercials are for chumps! It’s especially appreciated for sports. I kid you not, I watched the entire 2021 Summer Olympics on fast-forward - it was almost two hundred hours of coverage.

We often prefer to DVR things when they’re broadcast, rather than wait for the on-demand to catch up, which can sometimes take several days.

This made me
Great minds thinks alike, but we say schmucks instead of chumps - LOL!

At Christmas time I’m one of those schmucks, because I love Christmas commercials

After Christmas, I have no patience for commercials again - LOL!