ChevyVanMiller Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Spent the past week catching up on shows clogging up the disc space of my TiVo. Wrote a column about what I have prioritized: Chevy's TiVo Thought it might make a good off-season discussion here. What programs do you TiVo so that you're sure not to miss them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I pretty much DVR every show or movie I watch, so I can watch when I want, skip the commericals, or fast-forward past boring parts. The only things I watch live are the news and football. Currently: Family Guy Robot Chicken Sarah Connor Chronicles 24 Law & Order SVU Nip/Tuck Lost Law and Order Top Chef Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares Smallville The Office 30 Rock ER Hardball McLaughlin Group Saturday Night Live Fox News Sunday Chris Matthews Show Meet the Press This Week Sabres games (have to add time in case of OT/SO) In season: Sons of Anarchy Rescue Me America's Next Top Model Project Runway Top Design Hell's Kitchen Venture Brothers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 a circuit board, a hard drive, some wires, a power supply, a fan, and various other knicknacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevyVanMiller Posted January 19, 2009 Author Share Posted January 19, 2009 a circuit board, a hard drive, some wires, a power supply, a fan, and various other knicknacks Well, I knew that was coming. Thanks for getting it out of the way early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGimp Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 I pretty much DVR every show or movie I watch, so I can watch when I want, skip the commericals, or fast-forward past boring parts. The only things I watch live are the news and football. Currently: Family Guy Robot Chicken Sarah Connor Chronicles 24 Law & Order SVU Nip/Tuck Lost Law and Order Top Chef Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares Smallville The Office 30 Rock ER Hardball McLaughlin Group Saturday Night Live Fox News Sunday Chris Matthews Show Meet the Press This Week Sabres games (have to add time in case of OT/SO) In season: Sons of Anarchy Rescue Me America's Next Top Model Project Runway Top Design Hell's Kitchen Venture Brothers Damn, these can't be all in HD otherwise you'd have to have a huge box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Cat Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Roommates and I combine for series recordings of: Simpsons (new and syndicated) Jeopardy (airs at 3:30 pm in Chicago, wtf) Paranormal State The Office Battlestar Galactica The Daily Show The Colbert Report Fringe Random, one time recordings of: Nostradamus 2012 NFL's Greatest Games ("The Comeback" ) E: True Hollywood Story: Home Improvement A Haunting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooderson Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Family Guy Robot Chicken Moral Orel Aqua Teen The Office Entourage 24 Movies Curb Your Enthusiasm Ghost Hunters Destination Truth Bleach Nothing too exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Don't you guys have wives? I basically have about 20 episodes of House Hunters in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemhoff Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I have a wife....soooooooo: Oprah Dr. Phil Top Chef Criminal Minds The Unit Desperate Housewives Cuse games Scintillating lineup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Nova Made in Spain Colamencos food show Modern Marvels The Story of India America's Test Kitchen Simply Ming Nature Frontline Globetrekker The Universe Pepin Mexico One Plate at a TIme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Damn, these can't be all in HD otherwise you'd have to have a huge box I have a 1TB drive in my main DVR and a 750GB drive in my secondary.... So I can get about 250 hours of HD recording through DirecTV Let's see if I can recall some of the stuff we record.... For new shows we usually record and then wait to see if the network cancels it - if so, we don't invest our time watching anymore. Here's a list of what I can recall: CSI :Miami (have all of last season recorded as well as this season... We're a bit behind ) CSI: NY CSI Smallville Daily Show Momma's Boys (lame...) How I Met Your Mother Gossip Girl Big Bang Theory Mentalist Simpsons Num3rs Ghost Whisperer (SDS' favorite show I bet) Eleventh Hour (haven't seen any yet) My Name is Earl Gary Unmarried Privilged 90210 (new one) The Unit Cold Case Superstars of Dance (?) Prison Break Heroes (haven't seen it this season) Fringe Kitchen Nightmares Life on Mars (was that cancelled?) America's Toughest Jobs (it's over, but we haven't finished it yet) Criminal Minds Reaper Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles Battlestar Gallactica I'm sure there's some others that I'm forgetting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 I have a wife....soooooooo: Oprah Dr. Phil Top Chef Criminal Minds The Unit Desperate Housewives Cuse games Scintillating lineup You poor man. We have 4 dvr's so I can't keep track of whats all there. Myself I record Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Top Chef Ramsays Kitchen Nighmares (Fox editions) Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares (BBC editions) Throwdown With Bobby Flay Chopped Arrested Developement MXC X-Play South Park Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 House Pushing Daisies Time and Eric's Awesome Show Colbert Report Daily Show The PJ's Tom Goes To The Mayor International Bowl MAC Championship game PTR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Nobody has room on their Tivo for "Friday Night Lights?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 We have 3 dvr's, but I only know what I record. Lost 24 Damages Battlestar Galactica Heroes Pushing Daisies (Please renew it ABC) Sarah Connor Chronicles (My dad and sis watch this) Smallville (My dad watches this) Supernatural American Idol How I Met Your Mother The Amazing Race (although it's over now) The O'Reilly Factor Red Eye Medium (Has'nt started yet) Dollhouse (Has'nt started yet) We have Netflix so not that many movies get recorded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastaJoe Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Damn, these can't be all in HD otherwise you'd have to have a huge box Don't know the exact size, but I rarely run out of space unless I record a couple of movies in addition to my list. I let multiple weeks of shows record, like maybe 5 weeks of Top Chef, then watch them all consecutively at one time. You can cut maybe 15-20 minutes from each show by fast forwarding through the commercials and the reviews of the previous shows at the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Spent the past week catching up on shows clogging up the disc space of my TiVo. Wrote a column about what I have prioritized: Chevy's TiVo Thought it might make a good off-season discussion here. What programs do you TiVo so that you're sure not to miss them? Currently, on a T-W DVR: 1 Twilight Zone b&w episode. The Christmas one with Art Carney. 1 Doc Martin episode. 3 House episodes. 3 Judge Judy episodes. 2 Little House on the Prairie episodes. 1 PBS Mystery! 2 Law and Order episodes. 2 Leave It to Beaver episodes. 1 What Not to Wear episode. 1 Motorweek episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGimp Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 I have a 1TB drive in my main DVR and a 750GB drive in my secondary.... So I can get about 250 hours of HD recording through DirecTV Let's see if I can recall some of the stuff we record.... For new shows we usually record and then wait to see if the network cancels it - if so, we don't invest our time watching anymore. Here's a list of what I can recall: CSI :Miami (have all of last season recorded as well as this season... We're a bit behind ) CSI: NY CSI Smallville Daily Show Momma's Boys (lame...) How I Met Your Mother Gossip Girl Big Bang Theory Mentalist Simpsons Num3rs Ghost Whisperer (SDS' favorite show I bet) Eleventh Hour (haven't seen any yet) My Name is Earl Gary Unmarried Privilged 90210 (new one) The Unit Cold Case Superstars of Dance (?) Prison Break Heroes (haven't seen it this season) Fringe Kitchen Nightmares Life on Mars (was that cancelled?) America's Toughest Jobs (it's over, but we haven't finished it yet) Criminal Minds Reaper Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles Battlestar Gallactica I'm sure there's some others that I'm forgetting... Really? Can u just hook up an external hard drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Really? Can u just hook up an external hard drive? Yes, you can connect an external drive via eSATA. However if you do that, then the internal harddrive is no longer used -- meaning any recordings you have will be unwatchable without powering off the unit and starting it without the attached external drive. If you're feeling adventurous, you can actually open up the case of the HR20/HR21 and pop in your own SATA drive, then power it back up. The box detects the new drive, installs the OS on it, and you're done. Takes 15 minutes tops and is very handy. Note that this violates your warranty and is not supported. That's what I did though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaGimp Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 Yes, you can connect an external drive via eSATA. However if you do that, then the internal harddrive is no longer used -- meaning any recordings you have will be unwatchable without powering off the unit and starting it without the attached external drive. If you're feeling adventurous, you can actually open up the case of the HR20/HR21 and pop in your own SATA drive, then power it back up. The box detects the new drive, installs the OS on it, and you're done. Takes 15 minutes tops and is very handy. Note that this violates your warranty and is not supported. That's what I did though I did not know that! Sweet. So, the existing recordings remain on the original drive even if you use it again? It doesn't overwrite it when you unplug the external and fire it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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