I got serviced
I got a lot of service today. First my heating was fixed, and then the cable guy comes with my digital video recorder (DVR). As soon as he walked in the door, he just stared at my little TV and said that digital cable wouldn’t help me. The only thing he was supposed to add was DVR capability. I already had digital cable.
I explained that the old TV was decommissioned and that I was in the process of getting a digital TV and that this was a temporary solution. I did ask if he had a degaussing ring, but unfortunately he did not. Today’s TV guys have computer hardware and gadgets to check and replace things. They can’t actually repair anything.
He set me up and recorded down the IP address of the box. He said I could record sixty hours of regular TV and about fifteen hours of HDTV. I got a quick rundown of how to setup the box once I get a digital television. He also showed me how I just navigate through the existing TV listings that I was used to and just press the record button. I saw that there are two options - record show and record all. Nice. Simple.
November 18th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
[…] On Monday, my cable company showed up and replaced my digital cable box with a DVR (digital video recorder). There are a few features that I have used that I like. First, I can change the colors of my TV listings. Woohoo! Second, it has a picture-in-picture mode so that I can channel surf during commercials and see when my show comes back on. I can also pause any channel that I’m watching and even rewind. How cool is that? […]