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 connected to the Direct TV Russian package and their top of the line digital video recorder, my TV viewing habits have been altered.
Let me explain what I’m talking about.
If you have not watched television with a DVR, or a TiVo, you don’t know what you are missing. You have total control over everything you decide to watch. If you are watching a program, and all of the sudden you realize that you are hungry, you can just pause the program. Go make your food, and then come back when you are ready, even if it takes an hour!
Then when you start viewing the show again, you will have the added bonus of fast forwarding through any advertisements that come up. Zip through them every time they come up! Sometimes I don’t see a commercial for days.
Now here is how I get the most out of my digital video recorder setup. I don’t surf through channels 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. That way, I can fast forward through all the advertisements, and watch the game in half the time.
Lastly, I can always see new episodes of my favorite series. For example, new episodes are coming out soon of Friday Night Lights on Direct TV. 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 HD 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 TiVo and Direct TV.
While other companies like U-Verse and Verizion Fios have also begun to offer DVR service, satellite TV companies like DIRECTV pioneered the product.
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