[written on 3/3 at 10:30 pm -- still don't have broadband at the house]
Well, the wife and I have been in the new house for three nights now, and tonight was our first experience with UltimateTV.
Wow.
Can I say that I really don’t know how we lived without a DVR in the house up to now. Yesterday, I set the DVR up to record The Practice tonight, and we’d set it up to record Dragnet last night, so, at 7:45ish or so this evening, we plopped onto the couch with our take our chinese food, and surrounded by a multitude of unopened boxes (from the move) we started watching Dragnet. We fast forwarded through most of the commercials (I know, that’s sort of sad considering I work in advertising sales) and finished the show in around 35 minutes. After Dragnet and some channel surfing, I flipped over to The Practice which was in progress and started watching it from the beginning. Again, we fast forwarded through the commercials, and finished the show at around 9:10. This left us enough time to flip over to CSI: Miami (which we’ve never watched really) and we enjoyed 15 minutes of that before I decided we should record it too… Then we decided to flip a few more channels and at around 9:30 we came back to CSI and started where we left off, skipping commercials until we caught up with the show in progress.
This proves to me that a DVR will certainly change our viewing habits, as well as save us some time, in the evenings (or at the least allow us to watch more TV in the same amount of time as we’d been devoting to it in the past).
I can also see it impacting my blog posting, as there won’t be too many commercial breaks in our TV watching experience anymore…
Everyone should own a DVR.
On that topic, I can’t comment on which DVR service is best, as I’ve only ever experienced UltimateTV at this point, and while that’s a Microsoft product, it’s pretty straight forward, and quite useable. I’d recommend it, but again can’t compare it to anything.
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As someone with a dual tuner TiVo hooked up to a Satellite dish, I share you utter joy with the DVR revolution. I watch Alias on Tuesday nights, West Wing and Ed timeshifted. I watch more TV now than I did before, because now I get to choose when I watch it. Even better, TiVo started recording Sports Night for me on Comedy Central…when it’s on at 3:30 in the morning. God Bless the TiVolution.
Ooh, Sports Night!
/me goes to add that to his season passes…
TiVo (DVRs) rocks!
Spent my first night with my Tivo tonight. Can’t believe I’ve wasted so much of my life before Tivo.
http://danisaacs.com/blog/archives/000176.html#000176
We had Ultimate TV and dumped it in favor of Tivo. We actually liked our ultimate TV for the first 9 months that we had it. Then Microshiet upgraded it for us. The interface went from pretty good to absolutly impossiable to deal with. The Tivo definitly has a better interface than Ultimate. Enjoy it definitly makes TV better…
i had ultimate tv and now tivo. the only reason i have tivo is because directv is fazing out ultimate tv. ultimate tv is way better than tivo. it’s like comparing a vw to a bmw. tivo doesn’t start recording programs on time. and is so generic. ultimate tv would let you know when a program was starting, or record it for you. while searching the guide you can still watch tv, not with tivo, ultimate tv had way better features. i miss my ultimate tv
I’ve had Ultimate TV for years and will resist going to TiVo as much as I’d resist someone gougin out my eyes. I haven’t actually played with a TiVo unit, but have watched other people and I am frankly amazed at the inferiority of the settings, beeps and options. Maybe I don;t know as much about it, but I am way happy with the Ultimate TV box. It also has (nice if you don;t have broadband) the WebTV built in so you can actually surf from your TV as well. Go figure. Microsoft finally gets a decent product and it appears to go by the wayside.