DVR-THIS couch potato’s dream
What’s your plan for the weekend? Me? You can find me comfortably planted in front of the tube, with the clicker in one hand watching all the shows that we taped on our new DVR!!
What’s that? My hubbie and the kids? Oh, I don’t know what their plans are either. I’m sure they won’t know I’m missing. 
Don’t feel bad for the hubbie, he will have all the football games taped as well, and will get his couch potato time too.
Yeah, we caved in and subscribe to Comcast DVR monthly service, how can you not after hearing “for only $10 a month, you can tape all the shows that you missed and can watch it ANY TIME you want!” And Tivo was waaaay too expensive.
So, the Comcast dude (CD) came and installed the DVR for us and left me with a used, all scratched up, dirty clicker with someone’s name inscribed on the bottom of the clicker (who does that any way, Adam Z.?!). I wished I took a picture of it to show you.
CD told me that Comcast recycle their equipments including the clicker, and that he doesn’t have any new ones to give out AND if I want a new one, I’d have to go to the office and get one myself.
I’m all for recycling things, but there’s no way in this couch potato hell that I want someone’s germ-infested, dirty, disgusted-looking clicker, something that my 18 month-old Sophia could be licking off of. This guy, Adam the previous owner, could have picked his nose, and left his “loot” on the clicker. Or worse, Adam might have felt lonely one night and one thing lead to another and next thing you know…there’s “stuff” on the clicker. I know, my imagination is giving me the creeps. EWWW!!
Uh, that just didn’t set well with WAYA! I gave CD more than my 2 cents on why this just didn’t make sense to me, and “you’re telling me, Comcast with their bazillion dollars in profits can’t even give out new clean clickers? And I have to go elsewhere to see if I can get a new one?” shaking my head, disgusted expression kind of speech. So CD said “let me see if I have any extra ones in the van.”
He came back with a brand spanking new one still in its wrapper and said “oh, this was the last one.” “YEAH RIGHT!” Was what I was thinking. And he said “yeah, I wouldn’t want to use someone’s used clicker either!” NO SH!T Sherlock!
Have a good weekend folks! I can’t wait to watch “Ugly Betty”! It looks like a funny show, and for the critics who said the show’s title is “demeaning to women, specifically women named Betty”, well let me tell you that I’m not offended and I am also a Betty.
What’s your plan for the weekend? Me? You can find me comfortably planted in front of the tube, with the clicker in one hand watching all the shows that we taped on our new DVR!!
What’s that? My hubbie and the kids? Oh, I don’t know what their plans are either. I’m sure they won’t know I’m missing.
Don’t feel bad for the hubbie, he will have all the football games taped as well, and will get his couch potato time too.
Yeah, we caved in and subscribe to Comcast DVR monthly service, how can you not after hearing “for only $10 a month, you can tape all the shows that you missed and can watch it ANY TIME you want!” And Tivo was waaaay too expensive.
So, the Comcast dude (CD) came and installed the DVR for us and left me with a used, all scratched up, dirty clicker with someone’s name inscribed on the bottom of the clicker (who does that any way, Adam Z.?!). I wished I took a picture of it to show you.
CD told me that Comcast recycle their equipments including the clicker, and that he doesn’t have any new ones to give out AND if I want a new one, I’d have to go to the office and get one myself.
I’m all for recycling things, but there’s no way in this couch potato hell that I want someone’s germ-infested, dirty, disgusted-looking clicker, something that my 18 month-old Sophia could be licking off of. This guy, Adam the previous owner, could have picked his nose, and left his “loot” on the clicker. Or worse, Adam might have felt lonely one night and one thing lead to another and next thing you know…there’s “stuff” on the clicker. I know, my imagination is giving me the creeps. EWWW!!
Uh, that just didn’t set well with WAYA! I gave CD more than my 2 cents on why this just didn’t make sense to me, and “you’re telling me, Comcast with their bazillion dollars in profits can’t even give out new clean clickers? And I have to go elsewhere to see if I can get a new one?” shaking my head, disgusted expression kind of speech. So CD said “let me see if I have any extra ones in the van.”
He came back with a brand spanking new one still in its wrapper and said “oh, this was the last one.” “YEAH RIGHT!” Was what I was thinking. And he said “yeah, I wouldn’t want to use someone’s used clicker either!” NO SH!T Sherlock!
Have a good weekend folks! I can’t wait to watch “Ugly Betty”! It looks like a funny show, and for the critics who said the show’s title is “demeaning to women, specifically women named Betty”, well let me tell you that I’m not offended and I am also a Betty.
I think you may have forgotten more about electronics than I’ve ever learned in the first place.
I really am interested in this thing. Does Comcast DVR function in the boonies? I’ve thought about TiVo, too, but heard it was expensive. Do you have to have a satellite dish also? So much to figure out.
Of course, I’m just relieved that my two channels that have ANY reception include the one for Grey’s Anatomy, and the one for Survivor. I should really be counting my blessings.
Kelly~Growing up with no cable and maybe just 4 channels (including PBS), this is one luxury that I got to have.
You have to call Comcast or Verizon to see which service is available for your “neck of the wood”. You can also buy a DVR as well, you don’t have to pay the monthly fee like we’re doing, to tape your shows. And no, you don’t need a satelite dish, that’s another service. I know it’s pretty complicated stuff, for me any way.
Good luck!
Good for you on the clicker thing. There’s NO WAY I would have settled for a used one either. Oh, and thanks for the graphic explanation of what Adam may have used it for. Yuk!
I love, love, love Tivo. It is expensive, but I got a web special deal so that it didn’t cost too much. The Hubster wants me to buy another one so that he can actually watch the news when it comes on instead of having to wait while the Tivo records. When I checked the prices of Tivo now…not gonna happen.
I just convinced DH that we need DVR!!! Is it really that easy to use? Can you transfer what you’ve recorded onto a VHS tape?
Kailani~well, the Comcast dude didn’t give us any manual, it’s another one of those “Comcast didn’t give it to him” blah blah blah like the used clicker. We’re still trying to figure it out by pushing this button and that button. So I’m not sure if you can transfer onto VHS tape. I’ll email you once we figure it out.
BTW, we just watched “Ugly Betty” from the DVR and what a GREAT SHOW it is!! I’d highly recommend it!
First of all, until I got my DVR I didn’t think I needed it. But I think when you have kids it’s a NECESSITY!! Cause of course things have to “happen” or “go wrong” right during the middle of your shows!! Plus! Fast forwarding through commercials? Heaven!
And ewww a used remote!?! Gross!
I’m a tivo girl myself and I’m looking forward to catching up on my Project Runways this weekend.
Thank God for tivo.
Yuck! Perhaps he used a paper towel to clean up..?
I don’t know what a DVR is nor TIVO. This is so 3rd world of me. Well, we got our pirated dvds of all teh tv shows so I guess I’d just have to settle for that.
As for CD guy, he was just too lazy to give you one. Good job you did there WAYA.
My plans for the weekend is NOTHING. We have no electricity due to the supertyphoon which hit us for a maximum of 2 hours. I know, pretty lame but it was the worst in a decade. I envy you and your DVR. Anything that lets me watch my fave tv show anytime I want is a sure winner.
My husband has been bugging me to consider something like Tivo. I would LOVE it, honestly, but…. I know that I have a true tendency to become a couch potato myself, and am afraid that I’d just get hooked on some more shows. Like Ugly Betty!!!!! Couldn’t watch it because it’s on while the kids are going to bed. As was The Office. On competing channels.
Hm. Come to think of it, maybe I would invest if one could record more than one show in a particular time slot!
We are *this* close to getting DVR. Because we are couch potatoes, and we dream…
Oh, I want a DVR almost as badly as I want a personal chef, but I just. can’t. submit! AAAH! The torture of not caving into $10 more a month.
And, eww, on the used clicker. That’s weird.
That sounds positiviely divine. Not the yucky clicker, Congrats on getting a new one BTW, but on the service. We don’t have cable or a satellite, just an antenna, but I will have to look into it.
LOL! That was the first thing I thought when you said he gave you a used clicker (the comment about “stuff”, ewwww!) I would have asked for a new one too! I love our DVR. However, it’s hard to even watch the taped shows. I taped Nip/Tuck and started to watch it for the first time, and whoa! I had to turn off quickly before girls entered the room (they had been outside with dad) Definately, a late night catch up show!