Alright, I have an announcement to make:
I am now a checkerboard chick!
Er--no--wait a minute!--
What I meant to say was, I am now amongst the Tivo oriented!
Last week I purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder/Tivo unit. It has a 140 gb hard drive along with free basic Tivo (it also offers a free 45 day trial period of Tivo Plus, which I'm currently using--I'm sure I will sign up for it when the trial is complete.)
Anyway, I just love it! I set it up on Thursday night and been playing with it ever since. The first thing I had it record was Classic Arts Showcase, and then the Katrina Telethon on Friday night (which was also the first program I recorded to DVD.) Over night on Saturday I set it to record Gigi, The Pirate and Hans Christian Anderson.
What's strange--and what I haven't completely figured out yet--is why it chooses to record other programs on its own. I can understand why it went ahead and recorded Brigadoon and Follow The Fleet, but I have no idea why it has been choosing to also record such shows as The Fairy Oddparents, Designing For The Sexes and yesterday morning's Today Show. As I was leaving for work this morning, I saw the red recording light was on again. I have no idea what it could be recording.
Along with DVDs and CDs, the unit will also allow me to view photos that I have burned onto CDs or DVDs, along with playing MP3 files that I have likewise burned.
And the Tivo pause, rewind and fast forwarding functions of live TV are a definite plus, too. It truly is a new way of watching television. It's like everything is on DVD now.
Now comes a project that will most probably take the next year or so to complete--transforming my huge VHS library to DVD. I'll probably start with my Tony Awards ta pings.