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Does anyone still video stuff off the Telly?

Do you still video stuff off the TV?

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EastEnder said:
Crap, I can remember that.

<feels very old>

:(
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and then you got to watch

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:D
 
We've got two newish videos and can't record stuff off either of them because the remote controls have gone walkabout and there are no manual buttons to use to record, :mad:
Got sky+ now though that does it all for you if it decides it's working.
 
I want one of these:



Combined DVD recorder, Freeview tuner, 160Gb PVR. :cool:

Sadly I don't have 400 quid to burn.

:rolleyes:
 
EastEnder said:
before video recorders?!?! :eek:
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Err yes. I can remember those days & they were not that long ago. :p

Only a few years before VCRs, I can also remember the first time I saw a telly with a wired remote control. The very height of sophistication that! :D

One om my colleagues only stopped using Betamax last year! :eek:
 
pogofish said:
Only a few years before VCRs, I can also remember the first time I saw a telly with a wired remote control. The very height of sophistication that! :D
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When I were a wee lad, my folks had a telly with an ultrasonic remote control! :eek:

Wasn't all that reliable, as I recall. Lots of pointing and repeated clicking of the button (think it might even have had two!) in the vain hope of the channel changing. I seem to remember a more effective method was to get the dog to bark.....:rolleyes:
 
The only thing I record these days is the Formula One Grand Prix.

I think it all comes from the time when the "normal time" repeat of the Australian GP had the bit cut out where Alan Jones called Michael Schumacher ' a nasty little Kraut ' ....
 
marty21 said:
yes, i am an aged one, when i first started watching the telly box, there were 3 channels, and they closed down over night:( no breakfast telly:(
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Yes. I remember when we had to warm up the telly for Eastenders.
 
miss giggles said:
Sorry, but what is a 160Gb PVR?:confused:
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Personal Video Recorder.

Fancy term for a hard disk based VCR.

Bit like Sky+, only without signing up to a stupidly expensive, immense collection of teleshopping & god bothering channels.

:cool:
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
and then you got to watch

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:D
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And it made that horrible high pitch noise to remind you to turn it off. Which is all well and good unless it is your neighbour who has fallen asleep with their tv on :mad:
 
Dubversion said:
all these people citing broadband - if i want to watch something in a hurry, it's just easier to tape it than spend hours waiting for the torrent to download
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Yeah!


*gulp* we agree on something.


Besides my kids monopolise the vcr. The DVD player is a bit harder for them to operate!
 
Dubversion said:
all these people citing broadband - if i want to watch something in a hurry, it's just easier to tape it than spend hours waiting for the torrent to download
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I agree torrents are slow if your not on a private tracker, but I find uknova great for english TV. Newsgroups are great too, I work nightshift and I can download and watch each days Big Brother a cpl of hours after its broadcast.
 
Strawman said:
I agree torrents are slow if your not on a private tracker, but I find uknova great for english TV. Newsgroups are great too, I work nightshift and I can download and watch each days Big Brother a cpl of hours after its broadcast.
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I've used UK nova but its been well slow on my geriatric computer!
 
No coz I might go Sky+ & don't have a recorder right now, but do have a pile of really good Boxing tapes stashed that I don't want to lose ?
 
I would video loads of stuff if I hadn't somehow wired up my dvd player through the video which means for some reason I can't.

I should be able to record stuff on the dvd player but I can't be bothered to find out how :o though I've done so by mistake.
 
I managed to wire my system up so that the DVD player only played through the tv and the VCR played through the stereo - unless I turned my digital tv off - then my DVD player plays throught the stereo too. :confused:
 
Don't bother anymore cos my work gave me a PVR and it has transformed my TV watching habits. My flatmate sometimes tapes saved programmes off the PVR, but I don't bother cos I never re-watch films and programmes once I've watched them once, esp films.
 
Major Tom said:
I dread the day my VCR conks out. The current technology leaves me completely baffled.:confused:
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Same here. I still battle with stacks of dusty VCRs. :o

It usually takes me about ten years to get round to wathing anything I've recorded though...still got those last two episodes of 'The Word' from '94 to catch up on - then I can use the tape again. :cool:
 
The effort required to record programmes you're not going to be around to see is so minimal that you tape ALL the good stuff you're gonna miss, so if you have a flatmate who insists on having the TV on ALL the time, at least you don't have to watch random crap.
 
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