Our local cable company has launched a new Digital Video Recorder (DVR) service similar to TiVo or ReplayTV. I’ve found a little more info on a TiVo discussion board. I went and picked one up on Friday.
It’s not as full-featured as TiVo, but it’s cheaper and everything is tied through the cable company instead of having to use another service. Our initial experience with it this weekend has been pretty good. I’ve had trouble recording two programs at once, so I need to look into that some more. I also made the mistake of turning the cable box off this morning, which screwed up some things that I was unaware that Mary was trying to record. Being able to record any show at any moment is a definite plus. We were watching an episode of Ed, Edd n’ Eddy that we particularly like and were able to record it with the press of one button. The pausing of live tv will definitely come in handy now that we have two young children. I’d be interested in finding out if there is a local discussion board for this particular service. I haven’t checked the newsgroups yet.