How To Pick The Best Dvr For Your Television Recording Needs

The more things are changing, the more they are also staying the same

. As kids, the only way to see our favorite television shows was to be in front of the tube when it aired. The VCR enabled us to record our shows by programming in the time and channel, if you could figure it out and remember to put in a tape. With the introduction of the digital video recorder or DVR, technology has pretty much made the VCR a thing of the past.

Not only is a DVR much easier to program, but managing your recorded shows is a breeze. No stacks of tapes to sort through and label, no worries about whether the tape is still any good, and definitely no hassles about making sure you had touched all the bases in programming the VCR so you get the right show on the tape. DVR's have definitely revolutionized the way we record TV. But, which one will suit our needs best? That all depends on what you expect and need out of your equipment as there are DVR's that cover virtually every combination of needs available.

Regardless of whether you want to automatically record a show every day so you can time-shift the show to a time when you can watch it, or if you want to record and keep an entire season of shows, virtually any DVR available will do that. Also, most DVR's will allow you to pause, slow motion and even rewind live TV. There are even DVR's for HD that will handle virtually any function you can think of. But there are several functions that the newer recorders will do that may be a perfect fit.

There are DVR's available now that will handle hundreds of hours of storage, allowing you to not only record and store entire seasons of shows, but that will have the additional space available to store dozens of movies and specials. Some recorders allow for external storage of recordings so there are no limitations to the size of storage drive on the actual machine. That way you can build an ever expanding library of TV shows and movies without having to worry about ever deleting "old" shows.

Some digital recorders will allow you to export the movies and shows you have recorded to portable devices so you can watch away from your TV. That enables you to record a show at night, transfer it to your portable viewer, and watch it on the bus or train the next day, when you've got time and can sit down and enjoy the show without having to be in front of your TV to watch it.

VCR's freed us from the limitations and whims of TV programmers who invariably put shows on when we couldn't watch. DVR's remove almost every other limitation that VCR's stuck us with. While finding a DVR to do everything you want it to do can leave you with a dizzying array of choices, you do have the choices. Get your list of wants together and go find your perfect DVR. Enjoy TV how you want, when you want. Now is the opportunity to get what you want!

by: Johney Maron

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