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Wednesday October 5, 2005 5:36 pm
The TiVo VCR Funeral
It looks like the official death of the VCR will be happening later this month at DigitalLife in New York. You see, TiVo has taken it upon themselves to make funeral arrangements, and be in charge of the funeral itself. Even better, if an attendee brings a video tape and hands it over to TiVo, they will walk away with a free TiVo unit (after agreeing to sign up for a service contract.) Interestingly enough, I find it odd that TiVo has the gall to call another technology dead. I mean, isn’t this like the whole pot-kettle-black thing?
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brandon chinn
10/10/05 9:22 pm
that is pretty hilarious. I have been wondering how long the VCR would last, and I was doubting it would be in my generation. haha.
mumbles
10/11/05 6:40 pm
does this mean i should throw out my laserdiscs too?
what’s wacky is that i hear dvrEverywhere used to be called TiVo Anywhere - before TiVo decided that it was time to start laying on a little Not Invented Here harshness
medic
10/12/05 7:35 am
My Scientific Atlanta cable box isn’t very receptive to the device, so changing channels takes about 3 whole seconds from start to finish, whereas it used to take less than 1. One thing is for sure: I wouldn’t channel surf with this thing. It would take me forever to get through my 100 or so channels. Fortunately, I know what I want, and this isn’t an issue for me. Plus, TiVo provides you another solution, which I’ll talk about in a bit.
Tony McNaterland
10/8/07 10:30 am
Can you lend me that show you recorded last night? Oh that’s right, the pay TV recording service still can’t do what the free VCR could do 30 years ago. I’ll consider the VCR passe when something better, in all aspects, comes along.
Tony
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[quote author="IsMaR" date="1128598667"]well i still use my VCR[/quote] same here :)
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I have one for "just in case" purposes. It maybe gets used once or twice a year.
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I stopped using my VCR for recording ever since I got a tv tuner card.
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i dont use the vcr, but my parents do. and no, they have not learned how to program it.
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I actually got my first TiVo back in 1997 when they first came out. I don't think I have used a VCR for anything since then. In fact it once created a crisis when I had to watch a vcr tape for work and realized I had no active VCR to view it on. I did manage to dig one out of storage and hook it up.
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My mom still uses her VCR all the time - she hasn't learned how to program it either. I still use mine as well. I like tapes... they have some sort of nostalgia attached to them. Also, I can get lots of cheesey horror movies for really cheap on video... hehe. I've never checked, but aren't TIVOs really expensive? I always thought that because the only people I knew that had them were celebrities.
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I still use my VCR to tape an occassional television show if I know I won't be home to watch it. Doesn't TiVo have a monthly fee attached to it? That's why I like my VCR...one purchase price and that's that.
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Well, you do have to buy new tapes though... I have one of those combo DVD/VCR's now, I use both side pretty much equally...
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