subject: When Buying Satellite TV, Is The DVR Option Worth The Extra Cost? [print this page] When Buying Satellite TV, Is The DVR Option Worth The Extra Cost?
Are you thinking about buying satellite TV, or considering upgrading your existing Satellite TV or cable system to include DVR (Digital Video Recording) and wondering if the extra cost is worth it's weight in gold?
To answer that question you need to consider what your watching habits are. If you have a busy schedule and you are not able to sit down to a little entertaining TV until late at night, then you are a perfect candidate. DVR systems can be programmed to automatically record your favorite shows. Once they are recorded you can watch them whenever you want. You can even watch them more than once.
If you are board and are sitting around waiting for your show to air, then DVR most likely won't be as much use to you, but still has benefits.
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A great feature of DVR, whether you have a busy schedule or not, is that you can skip past all the advertisements. If you let the machine record your show, then watch it at a later time, you have a button on your remote that advances the play point by few seconds. Just keep pressing that button until you are past the advertisements and you are back to your show. Using this technique, you can watch an entire sitcom in a fraction of the time. This makes it an absolute must for the busy person who want to watch a couple shows before retiring to bed at night. It is however, bad news for the companies that have bought the advertising space, because consumers are not watching the advertisements as much now.
So whether you have a busy schedule or not you can still enjoy the benfits of DVR. If you do have a busy schedule then you will enjoy DVR so much that you will wonder how you ever lived life without it.
