"I swear once you have one you won't go back...plus I hate to say it but in a couple years...they won't even make vcrs anymore and eventually no tapes either."

CHEMAR:: THEY DON'T MAKE THEM ANYMORE.

I know because I went on the interet, to Panasonic, on Ebay. YOU CAN'T FIND PANASONIC OMNIVISION. That's the ones we love.

Oh yeah, you can buy refurbished, but who wants refurbished? They are junky.

All I wanted was a nice VCR. Is that tooooooo much to ask??

Of course.

Well, I'm going to call up directv.

Now before I call. Let's say I get 2 boxes. One for my bedroom, and one for the living room. Who sets these things up?

Do they come in the mail, and I just plug it in and that's it.

I gather I take the coaxial cable that comes out of the side of my house (the directv cable), and is now presently in the back of my cable box, I gather I take that cable and plug it into the NEW DVR thingee??

Is that the whole magilla?? Doesn't seem hard to do, if that's all it is.

The only hard part is learning how to use it.

I can do that.

I THINK!!!

LOL

Afew years ago....my dh bought 3 brand new vcrs and put them in the
basement.

We have soooooo many kid tapes that I wanted my youngest to be
able to see them all. We havent had to break them out yet but
Im happy that we have backup.

Good luck....maybe you could find one at a tagsale.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/secondaryIndex.jsp?assetId=900023

says 5.99 a month and more info about it
installation info-
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global...97018177711100

YAY!!!!!! Yeah get two TV's hooked up and you will be happy.

Depending on what box direct TV has in your house now what they will likely do is come by and just change out the boxes for you.

They came by to install it right?

Wait till you get them....its so easy to use. The best part is you can set up a program for a season pass so no need to set it each time its on, the DVR will remember.

Seriously its just a better VCR without the tapes.

And for $5.99 extra its so worth it.

If this only costs $5.99 a month more, I'll kiss you.

Is this $5.99 for each box? Alan will need his own box in the living room.

Right now we have 3 receivers. The third one is free. They don't charge me anything for this 3rd one. It was kind of a bonus.

I use the third one on my right set up in the bedroom. Only for taping. It's so convenient. We don't have to miss anything.

Especially when the fall comes and there are new shows on Channel 2, 4, and 7.

But when HOUSE is on, on Channel 5, then we're cooked.

But it seems that with this DVR thing, we might not be so cooked.

Oh, guess what happened last night with the 4TH ONE I GOT FROM THE GUY AROUND THE CORNER.

The lovely Panasonic Omnivision, well it would not record or play anything without jumping up and down. I wanted to kill it.

So I just unplugged it and put back my former SONY that my friend threw out because she couldn't get the tapes to come out when she pressed the eject button. I figured out how to do it, and I've been using it.

I guess I'll still use it until I figure out what I want to do.

But I'm definitely going to check out the link that Jo provided.

I can just see Alan in the living room screaming at me "how the hell do I work this stupid dvr thing???"

That's when I get ALL OF YOU TO COME TO MY HOUSE AND PROGRAM IT FOR ME.


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