Use Your DVR To Control Your Television
The digital video recorder has to be the best add-on to my TV. Ever since I got hooked up with the DirectTV Russian package and their top of the line HD DVR, my television viewing habits have been altered.
Here is how it works.
If you haven’t ever watched TV with a DVR, or a TiVo, you don’t know what you are missing. You have complete control over all the programming you decide to watch. If you are watching a program, and all of the sudden you realize that you are starving, you can just hit the pause button. Go make your food, and come back when you’re ready, even if it takes 15 minutes!
Then when you start viewing your show again, you will have the added bonus of fast forwarding through any commercials that come up. Pass right through them each time they come up! Some days I don’t even see a single commercial.
Now here is how to get the most out of a digital video recorder. I don’t even bother channel surfing anymore. I simply set up my DVR to save the programs I like. Even when watching football, I set the digital video recorder, then I sit down about half an hour after the game starts. This way, I can fast forward through all the commercials, and watch the game in about half the time.
Lastly, I can always see new episodes of my favorite series. One example: New episodes are coming out soon of Friday Night Lights on DirecTV. On the digital video recorder, all I have to do is select the record series choice, and each time the show airs, my Direct TV DVR finds it night or day, and saves it for me. I can set it to save all of the episodes, or just the first-run episodes. All of this in beatiful hi def too!
Then, when I have the time to watch TV, all of my favorite shows are ready and waiting there for me to watch. No need to rearrange my schedule around the networks, not with my new DirecTV digital video recorder.
While other companies like AT&T U-verse and Verizion Fios have also begun to offer DVR service, satellite TV companies like DIRECTV pioneered the product.
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