On 9/7/2011 10:45 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:09:47 -0400,
wrote:

On 9/7/2011 7:54 AM, Mr.Spock wrote:
"Ed wrote in
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wrote
A DVR is basically just a PC (in a small case with a special
interface) that records TV on a hard drive. When they say they can
record more than one channel that means they have more than one
tuner.


Everything goes to the hard drive and is then sent to the TV. That is
how it allows you to pause, rewind, FF, etc. When you change
channels, it is not instant, but the ability to do those functions
makes it a vey nice toy to have.



Thanks for your info.
I typed in ' buy DVR ' into google and got some nice results such as:

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/e...mputers/audio-
video/video/dvd-recorders/dvrs-how-to-choose-105/overview/

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/3qxzefv

Looks like something cool to own.

Its one of those things that once you have one you will wonder why you
waited. Very similar to GPS.

I hope it's a lot better than GPS. Buying a GPS was the biggest waste
of money I ever spent. If I followed that thing, I never got where I
wanted to go. Although I spent over $100 for it, tossing it in the
garbage saved me a lot of money in wasted gasoline, and I got a free
map at the local D.O.T. office, which works 1000 times better.

The various GPS units I have/had have paid for themselves 1,000 times over.

Maybe you had a defective unit?

I would never go back to trying to decipher a postage stamp map
depicting 6 highways that may or may not connect while in the dark in an
unfamiliar area like say last night when I was traveling and the exit I
was supposed to use was shutdown in an unfamiliar area.