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PVR stands for Personal Video Recorder as far as I know. You know the kind, your cable company or satellite company will rent one to you for so much per month. Usually you have to rent them because they don’t allow or don’t want you to own it. They don’t make much money that way.

I got a call this week asking if I was interested in such an addition to my home entertainment package. Price is one thing, but there is another factor of much more concern.

What the heck am I going to record?

I’ve mentioned in this blog before that the movie networks I have and the specialty channels I have keep repeating the programs over and over. Not only that, but lately they repeat the same programs over and over on different channels, since a lot of them are owned by the same background company. So much so that dropping some of those packages is a great possibility.

So back to this offer of a great deal on a PVR.

What the heck am I going to record? Do I want to watch those shows 28 times instead of 27? Don’t talk about time shifting, because every time I time shift my viewing habits, the same shows are still there. Why would I want to save 28 hours of reruns? I can’t get them out of the strange little box and on to a DVD. Watching a ‘no channel’ would be just as entertaining.

So I declined the offer of a PVR once again. Any program I missed will magically appear again on the channel anyway – and I don’t have to pay extra for it – I am already doing that.

P.S. Next week I will have all positive entries. I do that once or twice a year. That means I have a lot of research to do to find some positive material. Oh, that’s negative isn’t it?

-=One Day At A Time=-

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