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[ria_oaks]

Ummm, yeah. So. I might have bought a TiVo yesterday. ^___^ What can I say, it'll make my life just that much easier now that the fall TV schedule is starting, esp since I'm going to be away for 3 weeks of September and will miss all but 3 of my premieres. :( I'm in North Van right now so can't really set it up, but soon as I get home tonight I'm looking forward to getting it up and going. Can't decide about the subscription, though - part of me bulks at paying another $129 right off the bat for the 1-year prepaid. The monthly plan is $12.95 a month and works out to about $25 more a year, but I'd kinda prefer just paying a small amount each month to a bunch right now. Well, mainly because I just spent $200 on the actual box, and I'm about to go to Europe. o.o
Oh, and on a totally separate note - my Hamlet tickets arrived the other day. So excited to have them in my hands at last. ^___^ Finally know what seats we're in, too - Mom didn't even bother asking, she was too worried that they wouldn't sell them to her if she showed the least bit of hesitation. *grin* Dress Circle (already knew that part, at least...), row B, 50-51. Across the aisle from each other, but quite good seats overall. They're pretty close to the middle, and in the second row of the circle.

Also, I finally sold my other tickets - the buyer sent the money to me within a few hours on eBay, and I had the tickets in the mail the next morning. Phew. So much easier, too, than what I was going to do with the other potential buyer... anyway, glad to have that done.

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[bk635.livejournal.com]

I'm not exactly a huge fan of their subscription-based approach. Anyway, what subscription did you choose?

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree, but it's so awesome that I don't mind. :) Shaw's PVR isn't subscription based, but it doesn't have near the functionality of the TiVo, so... Anyway, I just went for the 1-yr prepaid. I'll have to pay anyway, so might as well do it once a year and save some money.

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Shaw's PVR is really bare-bones, but it does what a PVR should do and that's good enough for me. Though I don't think you can swap the hard drive out for another, which would be a nice feature.

I don't think the subscription for TiVo is mandatory--it's just for their program guide, no? You can still record and stuff without it provided that you konw the times everything comes on. Or something like that, anyway.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

I suppose, but it requires a lot more manual inputting of recordings - I like the TiVo's season pass option, as well as the various search functions and the ability to schedule recordings online (it was so cool to go to zap2it.com at work and schedule my TiVo to record The Colbert Report, then to come home and see it in my TiVo's To Do list!). Plus TiVo lets you transfers recordings to your computer, and with TiVo Desktop (free version) and a handy-dandy free converter, you can watch videos from your computer on your TV (huge selling point for me, since I can no longer use an S-Video cable to hook my laptop up to my TV, and really, watching TV in my computer chair on a small screen just can't touch watching it on my comfy couch on a big screen. ^__^).

And no, you have to have a subscription to use it at all now. I think you used to be able to manually record without it, but they've changed it (anyone shocked? Heh.). But really, $11 a month isn't exactly much - hell, I'm paying $50-100 just for my cable, so... what's another 11? ^^;

[bk635.livejournal.com]

The PVR also has the season pass option, but none of the others. So I suppose if you actually have a use for those options then they make it a nice selling point.

Haha, that's terrible. Maybe it was originally a loophole that they just got around to fixing?