In the United States, it's common to see television viewers turning on their digital video recorders (DVRs) while watching their favorite shows. Some of us may have done it before (I remember a friend who used to tape episodes of T.G.I.S. every week) with VCRs, but the digital age has made video recording easier and more convenient, sans the stacks of tapes.For starters, DVRs use hard drives or other memory mediums to record shows in MPEG format, which also enables users to store recordings on other external storage media such as USBs, your computer's hard drive, or memory cards. The cooler thing about DVRs is its "time-shifting" capacity, which allows users to pause live TV, skip commercials, do instant replays, and "chase play," or view the program exactly where they left off. Interesting, isn't it? No more hitting "stop" once the commercials get on a roll!
In the US, there are many DVRs available in the market, although TiVo is inarguably the most popular brand, hence the question, "What would you TiVo?".
Unfortunately, DVRs are not yet widely known in the Philippines, but if you had a DVR--a TiVo, a ReplayTV or anything--what are you mostly likely to record? Will you record primetime blocks and other specials on local television? Or would you dedicate your DVR to shows on cable?
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