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Date: 16 January 2007 09:09:18
Regular readers with not much else to occupy their minds (heh) may recall that our VCR (not vicar) went up in flames some time before Christmas.
On the weekend the brothers replaced it with a hard drive recorder. And this thing rocks. I am watching a show on SBS at the moment that doesn't have ads. BUT with the new handy dandy machine I can just press pause when I need to get some coco pops. And if I miss something, I can rewind up to 10 minutes. And I can record two channels simultaneously (and technically watch a third digital channel as our set top box is still working). It doesn't record DVDs because there does not yet exist a device that does all of the above PLUS DVD recording. Well not here anyway. I don't know why but that's ok because at least three computers in the house can record DVDs and the recorder dealie has a USB port. It's POSSIBLE that we could plug a wireless card into the USB port so the machine could talk to the computers... that would be way cool!