Miracle: My DVR is clear

Let this moment in history be marked: For the first time ever, my DVR is
completely empty. All 41 hours and 2 minutes are available for future
clutter.

David...

Something I'll likely never do is get through all the DVDs I have.
Then there's everything I've downloaded. And the stack of books I've
been meaning to find time to read. And the videogames I haven't
touched in a year. Is it wrong to complain about there being too many
entertainment options? I feel like I should think of what my parents
and grandparents had or didn't have to fill their free time and feel
ashamed.

Milhouse Van Houten...

I hear you there. I don't have a video game problem, but there's always more
to read than I can handle (both online and off), and the movies I've
downloaded are so far beyond me (and my bursting drive) that it's completely
hopeless. I've seen hardly any very new movies because I know not to
download them anymore. I'd have to watch 2 a day for the whole year to get
through what I have, and that's not going to happen. It's depressing and a
little wrong.

cloud dreamer...

LOL. In the 60's and 70's, we actually went outside and played with friends.

Quiet Desperation...

That always happens to be around year end. Too many repeats and
premptions.

To be accurate, there was one other time (since purchase) that it was clear,
but that's when last spring it decided to reboot itself and silently wipe
the contents of the drive for no apparent reason. The drive physically
checked out OK, so it was some kind of bizarre (and hopefully one-time)
logical malfunction, probably a bug in the OS.

But now that the networks are about geared up for a full schedule again, the
freedom is near an end, and it's back to the grind. I almost prefer the
reruns.

David...

I enjoyed having the two weeks with nothing to watch. It's not that
I'm not awaiting new episodes of "Lost" and "24" but they're only
doing 22 or so episodes a year anyway and I don't need to get them all
at once. It's nice to have a break.

Milhouse Van Houten...

September-November, February, and May are not my favorite months. December,
January, and March/April are much more like it. I wouldn't mind the networks
taking their cue from England and cable and doing shorter seasons with
longer breaks. Less is more, and also enough.

Some might ask why I have only -- gasp -- a 40GB drive. Well, the answer
should be obvious: Whatever size drive you have, the natural tendency is to
fill it. If I had a 200GB drive, I would fill it. And there would be no
coming back from a drive that size. A small drive keeps you selective and
actually watching what you record.

Rob Jensen...

If you had a 200GB drive, you could record the same number of shows
that you do now at waaaaay better resolution.

-- Rob

timeOday...

I believe it. I recently buckled down and deleted a movie that had been
sitting on my PVR for just over a year. I didn't want to watch it, but
I wanted to want to watch it.

cloud dreamer...

I have 180 hours on my HD-PVR. I've never come close to filling that -
though the two football games this weekend will fill up half of it on HD.