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Mid-Week Poll: Do You Watch TV Shows Live During Broadcast?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:00:36 +0000

Last week, you told us pretty overwhelmingly that the majority of our readers prefer to watch TV shows on large home theater screens, rather than smaller televisions, computers or portable devices. Even in this age of iPads and Google Glass, quality still trumps convenience for some viewers. In this week’s poll, tell us whether you...

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Mid-Week Poll: Do You Watch or Skip TV Commercials?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:00:16 +0000

In recent lawsuits, major broadcast networks NBC, CBS and Fox have all attempted to sue Dish Network over the satellite provider’s so-called “Auto Hop” feature that allows viewers to automatically skip TV commercials. This makes me wonder: How many of you actually watch commercials? Commercials are a necessary evil for broadcast TV. Aside from the...

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Latest DVR Sacrifice

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:00:01 +0000

Ah, the DVR. A miracle of modern technology. A device that has revolutionized the way we watch and experience television. What would we do without it? For heavy TV watchers like myself, the DVR is an essential tool to keep up with the many shows that consume our attention. Yet the DVR, with its limited...

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HDMI Handshaking Woes

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:00:32 +0000

The introduction of HDMI greatly simplified a lot of connectivity issues for home theater users. By combining the transmission of high-definition video and high-resolution audio all into just one cable per component, HDMI cuts down greatly on the cable clutter behind our equipment racks. This is a very welcome development. Unfortunately, at the same time,...

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Weekend Roundtable: Your DVR Series Recordings

Josh Zyber — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:00:24 +0000

This week’s Roundtable is very simple. We’re going to disclose which TV shows we’ve programmed for Series Recordings in our DVRs. Hopefully, you’ll do the same. No explanations or justifications are needed here. We’re just telling it like it is, and you can judge us all you want. Titles have been alphabetized, not arranged by...

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It’s a Festivus Miracle – I’ve Cleared Out My DVR!

Josh Zyber — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:00:15 +0000

Something kind of amazing happened over the last week – something I haven’t experienced since… well, I honestly can’t remember how long. I didn’t even think it was possible. Yes, I’ve officially watched everything on my DVR! With the Christmas break, all of the shows I regularly watch are now on hiatus for at least...

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I Think My DVR Hates Me

Josh Zyber — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:00:00 +0000

I’ve written previously about losing shows I’ve recorded when my DVR hit its storage capacity limit and had to delete whatever was oldest. As if that weren’t painful enough, it seems that the DVR has taken things a step further this time by mysteriously canceling one of my series recordings altogether. I’ve apparently missed an...

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Hey Networks, Quit Cutting Off the…

Josh Zyber — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:00:30 +0000

Would you like to hear the end of that sentence above? Well, too bad. We’ve programmed it to overrun the allotted space so that the end would get cut off. Why would we do that? No reason, really. We knew that it wouldn’t fit and you wouldn’t be able to see the end, but we...

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DVR Alert: ‘Persons Unknown’ Premiere Tonight

Josh Zyber — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:00:39 +0000

The summer season is upon us. Most of the good shows we watch during the regular season have either ended or are in the process of wrapping things up. While a few older favorites (‘Rescue Me’, ‘True Blood’) may be returning over the summer, by and large, the schedule looks pretty bleak for the next...

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DVR Alert: Good Guys Preview Event Tonight

Josh Zyber — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:00:24 +0000

Is anyone else looking forward to Bradley Whitford’s new ’70s-flavored cop comedy ‘The Good Guys’? I think it looks like a lot of fun. Fox is running a “preview event” of the pilot episode tonight at 8 PM EST, similar to what they did for ‘Glee’ last year. Further new episodes will follow in the...

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So, Where Do You Get Your HD Content?

Dick Ward — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:00:09 +0000

We spend all day talking about high definition content, or, to be more accurate, writing about it. We tell you what we think, how we watch our TV and movies, and we’d love to hear back. Do you get everything straight from your cable box, or do you go with a less orthodox method? Is...

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The DVR Giveth and the DVR Taketh Away

Josh Zyber — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:00:14 +0000

Yesterday, I posted about how DVR overload caused me to lose an entire season of a show I planned to eventually watch. Last night, I was threatened with the same situation. As I started the evening, my DVR was already at 88% capacity, and I had seven new shows scheduled to record. Tried as I...

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