On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:36:58AM -0600, steve harley wrote: > > this is my fourth Olympics with TiVo; we got TiVo and cable for the > 2000 games, and soon realized cable wasn't worth it but TiVo was ? > so for 12 years just about all the TV i've watched has been on time > delay, Olympics included.
I've been tape-delaying my TV watching for rather longer than that - I started around 1980, IIRC, (when it really was 'tape delay') with a Sears-branded Sony Betamax I picked up when my local store mistakenly offered the high-end discount on the low-end model. I can't remember the last time I watched anything live. I was one of the subscribers to NBC's PPV triplecast of the Olympics in 1992. By this time I had multiple VCRs, so I was able to record two of the three broadcast streams (and watch the third live, or play back a previously-recorded tape). I can't remember now why I couldn't record all three streams at the same time, but fortunately for me the need never arose. I did have to schedule changing the tapes in the VCRs, though - I think the longest slot I could record was 3 hours. I got my first TiVo when DirecTV offered one - for the first time it was possible to record shows for later viewing with no loss of quality. Cable (or satellite) is all but essential for me - one of the things we like to watch is Formula One auto racing, and that's never been shown on over-the-air broadcasts in America (unless you count the ABC coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix in the early 1980s; a whole 20 minute slot for a two hour race, of which 12 minutes were taken up by advertisements or talking heads in the studio). We also watch quite a few other shows that are only available on cable/satellite. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
