Our friend(?) Andrew called to let me know about a great deal that Time-Warner is offering...
The (?) is because due to his prodding, I will be $13 a month and who knows how many hours poorer.
TW is offering a Personal Video Recorder box rental for $6.95 per month. The box is similar to a Tivo or Replay-TV only in a few ways... better.
There is no need to hook the unit up to a telephone line as it gets its guide from the cable connection. It is significantly less expensive than the other units as you don't have to purchase the box, and the monthly fee is lower than the other units. You can record two channels simultaneously, as the unit has two fully independent tuners. Because it has two fully independent tuners, the unit also provides picture in picture even if the TV does not have PIP.
The unit requires that you have digital cable, so, after adding the box rental, plus the digital cable service, and subtracting the discount on Road Runner due to having digital cable, our cable bill increased a little over $13 per month. But, we have lots more channels to choose from - Jeanie really likes the HGTV channel, and I really like the digital music channels - and, the unit is really simple to operate.
Just about everything I have read about these units (some call them DVR's - Digital Video Recorders) says that they forever change the way you watch TV. With the unit, we can pause "live" TV at any time, and even rewind live TV. A telephone call in the middle of a favorite show is no longer traumatic. Many people who have PVRs watch everything time-delayed a few minutes so they can fast forward through the commercials.
So far, the only problem we have encountered is who gets to hold the remote control ;-p
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Posted by David at April 28, 2003 04:26 PM | Categorized under: A day in the life
That sounds incredibly cool. I've been seriously considering a Tivo, so tell me--if someone threatened to take it away, would you pay $400 to keep it? If your answer's 'yes,' I'm totally buying one.
Posted by: Dennis on April 28, 2003 07:33 PMI don't think so. Instead, I think I'd take the $400 and put it towards a new PC and build my own.
Posted by: David on April 30, 2003 03:59 PM