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DaneJasper
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| Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? said by jesseb_66  :Wow that would be sweet. Two would be nice enough, stupid TiVo... Wish I was moving to a place where FIOS installs were going on. If only there was anything worth WATCHING!
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Gokou2k3
join:2003-08-05
Tehachapi, CA
| Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? Nothing worth watching, on cable and satellite. 300 channels is too much anyway, if you honestly have all day to switch through 300 channels, then I'm sorry to say this, but you have NO life. And SBC, where are you? Verizon is ready to launch its tv service and SBC hasen't even started to deploy its crappy lightspeed yet  | |
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danawhitaker
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| Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? "Nothing worth watching, on cable and satellite. 300 channels is too much anyway, if you honestly have all day to switch through 300 channels, then I'm sorry to say this, but you have NO life."
Why is it people like you always have to try and come along and crap on someone's parade? Worthwhile television is in the eyes of the beholder. While there are many shows I think are utter garbage, there are people who enjoy them. And there are many shows that I genuinely enjoy and watch and follow on a regular basis (i.e. Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica currently). As for having 300 channels, no one said that people have to spend all day flipping through them. But the option is nice. I can burn through the expanded basic while channel surfing in the course of about two minutes max, and that's 75 channels. There are a lot of good, informational scientific programs that I can't currently get unless I bump up to digital that are probably included in this. While I might not have the time to sit and watch them all, that's where the recording device comes into question. It removes the time factor. Some of us also genuinely enjoy television. There are plenty of hobbies other people have that I find downright ridiculous, but it's not up to me how you spend your spare time.
If they price this right, it could easily sell a lot of people on switching to FIOS who might not otherwise see a compelling reason to do so. But between the increased speeds, the massive channel offerings, and the ability to record that many shows at once (not all of us live alone in a bubble, you know - ever argue with a significant other about what to watch?), I can't think of many reasons not to switch, especially if the price was good. If I could get 300 channels for a similar price to digital cable (which only has about half that), I'd do it in a heartbeat unless there were something terribly dysfunctional about the service itself. | |
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Home | Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? Telling someone that they have no life is not really expressing an opinion.
It's more of an insult, opinion or not. | |
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Gokou2k3
join:2003-08-05
Tehachapi, CA
| Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? said by smcallah :Telling someone that they have no life is not really expressing an opinion. It's more of an insult, opinion or not. An insult to who? Nobody here has said they switch through all 300 channels, unless you do........ | |
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| Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? There doesn't have to be a target for it to be an insult. No matter who you tell to "get a life," it's an insult, a very childish one at that. Since you don't know what kind of life anyone else has over the Internet.
I was replying to the person that said an opinion was being expressed, when it was an insult that was being thrown about about people who enjoy channel surfing far too much.
And then you add the "unless you do" part to the end of your reply? Implying that you're insulting me now?
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Gokou2k3
join:2003-08-05
Tehachapi, CA
1 edit | Re: 6 recordings at once??!?!? If there is something you didn't like about my original comment, then ignore it. Simple as that, there have been plenty of things said by people on BBR that I didn't like, doesn't mean I went and posted my thoughts on every single one for sport. And besides, this is about verizon's tv service, not about what somebody said in a thread that you dont agree with.  Lets just drop this already, its stupid. | |
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NOCMan
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Flower Mound, TX
| Agreed.
2 chan recorders are great but if you have to deal with network programing that gets extended by mistimed commericals and you're padding your shows for 5 minutes then it's easy to tie up both recorders. 4 tuners would help greatly.
6 is overkill. However I think that each house will have 1 main box doing the recording and you can use extra receivers to network content to them.
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It really annoys me when people CRAP on others' opinions just because they don't like them.