:( We're doing a total remodel of our house. While doing this we decided it would just be easier to totally move out. Without wanting to inconvienence my grandmother(who we moved in with) too much we decided to just watch what satellite she had and be done with it. I've had a DVR of some sort for the past 5 years or so, a couple of SD Tivo's and now 2 HD's from Direct so I've become pretty accustomed to it. I no longer can watch TV without my DVR. I find it impossible to be sitting and waiting for a show to come on now. I'll be in front of the tv 15 minutes before a show I want to watch is coming on and I just can't sit and wait for it. I'll run to do something else and I've already missed the first half hour or so. While I'm at it I miss HDTV too. I still have my BR's, HD-DVD's, and PS3 so I get some HD, but it's not the same to watch games in SD. I can barely bring myself to do it. I just wanted to post my frustration somewhere that I know people will understand. Anyone else ever experienced this kind of total drop-off in your ability to enjoy television?:(

:( We're doing a total remodel of our house. While doing this we decided it would just be easier to totally move out. Without wanting to inconvienence my grandmother(who we moved in with) too much we decided to just watch what satellite she had and be done with it. I've had a DVR of some sort for the past 5 years or so, a couple of SD Tivo's and now 2 HD's from Direct so I've become pretty accustomed to it. I no longer can watch TV without my DVR. I find it impossible to be sitting and waiting for a show to come on now. I'll be in front of the tv 15 minutes before a show I want to watch is coming on and I just can't sit and wait for it. I'll run to do something else and I've already missed the first half hour or so. While I'm at it I miss HDTV too. I still have my BR's, HD-DVD's, and PS3 so I get some HD, but it's not the same to watch games in SD. I can barely bring myself to do it. I just wanted to post my frustration somewhere that I know people will understand. Anyone else ever experienced this kind of total drop-off in your ability to enjoy television?:(

I can't imagine not having a DVR, they change your life.

I wouldn't watch TV without a DVR, with possible exception to NFL football.

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm getting close. I can still sit and watch something live that I'm highly interested in. But anything less than that has to be DVRed or I can't make it through it.

After a storm & power failure last year, my main DVR would no longer boot up. I immediately went back to using video tape. Certainly it wasn't as nice as a DVR, but as long as I have my Commercial Advance, I am good.

The thing I like about the DVR I use goes way beyond just time shifting and bypassing commercials. I use the Sony RDR-HX715 which has a 1.5x playback feature with sound. I watch virtually everything that way. Once you jump over the commercial groups; scan through the show opening, credits and player interviews; it takes less than 12 minutes to watch an episode of Jeopardy!.

I currently have the HR20-700, HR10-250, and DVR-80 (soon to be retired, the HR10 will assume its duties of recording SD along with OTA ATSC) for DIRECTV programming and a TiVo HD and MCE 2005 PC for OTA, Webcasts, Joost, and hopefully IPTV someday. I do have a DVD recorder, but it doesn't have an ATSC tuner, so I should probably pick up a Coupon Eligible Converter Box for it.

I try to keep DVRs for every situation on hand and running. I can't go back to the VCR.

i had two sa8000hd dvrs for 3 yrs but i ditched 'em last oct after crapcast jacked up the price by $100.
what i miss about the dvrs was being able to make dvd-rs from movies/concerts on hdnet/movies and oldies on 'american life tv' channel recorded on the dvrs, both of which comcast took away last june.:mad::(:mad:
if they brought back those channels, i might go back to 'em.

I wouldn't watch TV without a DVR, with possible exception to NFL football.

Yeah, I really like to watch sports live too. My wife will come ask me to do something while watching a game(or when I used to watch a game with a DVR:() and I'll say I can't. She'll tell me to pause it, and my response is always, "No, I have to watch this game LIVE". It's so wierd that nothing else I ever watched was live except for sports, and even sometimes I would pause a game long enough to get through the stupid halftime stuff so I could fastfoward and be sure to not miss anything at the start of the second half. It's kinda sad to sit down in front of the TV now. I'm one of those that almost can't stand to go watch something at someone else's house because I can't rewind their TV.