As I mentioned back in 2011, we watch a lot of television shows and most of them via our DVR from DirecTV.
It has a lot of advantages. not the least of which is the ability to pause a show, take a break, and then fast-forward through all the commercials.
The main reason we got a DVR in the first place, though, was as a way to get around network TV’s programming policies. Some nights are a total wasteland, while on others there are several shows worth watching, but they all air at the same time.
Our old DVR let us watch one show and record another, but that often meant that we still had to pass up something we might have wanted to watch. Honey has gotten good at finding those shows elsewhere – the on-demand channels, etc. – but it is an unnecessary aggravation, so we are upgrading (at no charge) to the Genie which allows you to record up to five channels at once.
The DirecTV technician is scheduled to install our new Genie this morning. That meant that we spent yesterday in a sort of TV marathon, watching shows we had recorded but hadn’t yet seen.
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