i love my new dvr
So I gave in 2 weeks ago and exchanged my Time Warner HD cable box for a HD DVR. I’ve wanted this for a long time, but I had heard the early boxes weren’t very good, and I didn’t feel like adding the extra $10 per month to an already overinflated cable bill. But I finally got tired of missing my favorite shows and being held hostage of sitting through commercials. This has turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve made lately.
Time Warner gave me the new Scientific Atlanta 8300HD, and now I’m hooked. I love being able to schedule recordings and watch them later, and now I rarely watch live TV anymore since it’s a total waste of time…I don’t have patience for it. The only problem is that I can’t get recorded shows off the box and save them to my computer. I’d love to be able to archive the entire season of Battlestar Galactica, but no dice so far. I’m thinking of settings up a MythTV box, and then just re-recording shows I want to save from the DVR to Myth. Hopefully I’ll figure out or find a solution and talk about that in a later blog entry