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I’m now incurring charges for my cable bill as I have been sucked into the world of the DVR (at least it’s not the world of “moick,” a.k.a. Tivo). The first thing I recorded on my DVR was the recent pre-season Packers versus Cardinals football game on the NFL Network. As it was, the broadcast was Phoenix-biased…I’m not quite sure how it’s determined which team’s broadcast is decided to be shown since it’s not a “neutral” national broadcast network.

For the DVR itself, I’m really enjoying the repeat/rewind/replay function of live t.v. There are some quirks I’ve noticed with the new Motorola DVR box, but that’s just probably due to me not having an HD t.v. and the box being HD (rocking the composite cables connection!)…like the double letterbox and sidebox on HD channels during SD portions of the broadcast, i.e. commercials. Or the slightly curved digital display lines on the box. At least the functions seem to respond faster than other DVRs.

I’ll be sure to update if there’s a flying HD t.v. coming down the pike.

Update: I completed viewing the recording. Regardless of it being a pre-season game, that was an awesome half game by the Packers (and the Cardinals if you count playing the second string), a really good complete game…that is until I realized I put the stop/end time as “on time” and the game probably went one more minute than what was recorded. Doh!

All adages apply when you own your own home, whether you were the cause of something happening or not. Something as simple as a latch door not closing completely can be reason enough…at least for someone like myself…to have the need for downloading the PDF manual for my electric thermostat. Either that or trekking over to Home Depot and trying to figure things out (usually by myself). Or staying up late at night researching it online. Hopefully things won’t result in replacing it or (ugh) calling…and paying for…an “expert” to take care of things.