HeavyB3 said:
Yeah SWD1974. You can get a Samsung 35 hour box for 100 bucks at Circuit City. It doubles as your direct TV box and the Tivo box. If you run a second line from your Dish you can watch one show and record another at the same time.
If you don't get the Direct TV/Tivo combo box, but just a regular Tivo box, the tivo service is 12.95 or something.
Anyway, direct TV + tivo is so superior to just having regular cable it's not even funny, AND it is about as expense as cable too.
And here is the coup de gras,
IF you have a DUEL TUNER on your direct TV dish (which I think is pretty standard, it certainly wasn't hard for us to get the duel tuner) you can record two live programs, while watching something that you've already recorded, or, like Heavy, said, you can record something live, and watch something else live at the same time.
not to mention how cool watching live or recorded shows using the tivo computer system is.
in another room, we've got just the Direct TV box, no Tivo. Watching live tv without tivo is a joke. I can hardly stand it.
When I watch a cards game, I use the DVR to quickly replay a play over and over again so I can watch the performance of each member of the line or linebackers or whatever. A digital video recorded compared to a regular VCR is like a 2004 Lexus compared to a 1939 hudson.