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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2010, 12:34:08 AM » |
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We have two set ups in our house. Live tv it seems is a pre-parenthood luxury. It's also handy when we both have programs on that we want to tape.
You can get a digital set top box with a usb output that you can hook up to a hard drive. You can then replay them at your leisure fast forward ads etc you can also hook it up to your computer and edit it and burn it with the right software (heaps of open source free software). We got ours from Jaycar in Australia for $42 it came with everything except the hard drive (these range in price depending on how much you want to store you can use a simple usb memory stick if you don't need much storage).
Our other setup is a panasonic dvd recorder. Much nicer to use, same quality of picture but easier to edit, can burn straight from the machine and has a reasonable amount of storage (about 72 hours).
It's been great because we are quite fussy about what he watches and when he watches it. So this puts me in total control of what and when without having to worry about what's before it or after it or what happens to actually be on at the time it suits me to let him watch a program. Of course the big upside is that if he interrupts us on the rare occassion when we can sit down together to watch a program we can simply stop it and come back to it.
Great inventions!!
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