Until very recently, I had been without cable tv for several years. Since 2007, in fact, I just had old school bunny ears attached to my flat screen HD-ready tv. I was laughed at a lot, but in my defence, I bought the tv to play video games and I watched most of my shows online, thanks to sites like TV Shack and Megavideo.
Then my roommate and I decided (well, he decided and I agreed) that enough is enough! And so we got cable. But not just your basic cable. No, we got hella awesome, balls-to-the-wall digital cable to the max! Some hundred billion standard definition channels, 50 thousand HD channels, On Demand, and an HD PVR. I don’t know what most of that means, but what I DO know is that I can record my shows while I’m working or doing school work and then watch them at my convenience – without getting up 20 times to adjust the picture, or waiting for them to ghad dang buffer. I can even fast forward through commericals!
Ok, ok. Most people I know have been enjoying this amazing technology for years, but I’m a cable noob. Even when I previously had cable, it was just your standard 50 channels or whatever. I did have some so-called specialty channels like Space and Teletoon, but now I have more channels than I could possibly know what to do with.
Or so I previously thought. As it turns out, I do know what to do with them… I sit and go through each channel’s programming and set up the pvr to record all the awesome tv I could ever want to view. I presently have all my regular shows set to record – Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, 90210, etc. PLUS I have amazing channels like Teletoon Retro and Deja View and HBO, so I can record things like ReBoot and Who’s the Boss?! Dear lord, I may never leave my couch again!
It’s entirely possible that this will prove to be a terrible idea. I am already stretched pretty thin on the schedule front between work and school, but then I also think it could in theory save me time… where once I had to go searching for the shows I do watch online, dealing with broken links or videos removed by the copyright infringement Nazis, that cursed buffering, and then Megavideo’s 54 minute rule, now my shows just sit and wait for me to come find them all fancy and clear and hassle free. Sure, I’ve added a few old classics to the viewing shedule, but I can watch those while I’m eating dinner or whatever. Where I previously was subjected to finding some crap on the 7 available channels and sitting through blasted commercials, now I can just throw on a convenient 23 minutes of Golden Girls while I sup, which I enjoy much, much more than that one episode of King of Queens that Omni insists on showing over and over and over again.
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