Comments on: TV, critics, personal taste: 2007 early season musings

By: walt

walt — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:29:49 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion (which was flagged for moderation for some reason). From what I can see, EyeTV is a DVR peripheral for a Mac. That doesn’t meet my requirements for two reasons:

1. It’s a computer peripheral, not a separate device.

2. It attaches to a Mac, and I have no plans to leave the Windows fold.

If a PC-based DVR was what I was looking for, I’d change my requirements for my next PC (easy enough: my second choice at the moment has a TV tuner and DVR software built-in, as do a fair number contemporary PCs)–but I also don’t plan to move my PC to the living room.

Actually, looking at Fry’s/Outpost.com, I do see one possibility, a Philips DVD recorder/hard disk video recorder for $330. So maybe there is hope (although buying that means that, when we go to HD, I have a $330 doorstop…)

By: Jay Datema

Jay Datema — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:41:48 +0000

EyeTV meets your requirements, I think.

By: walt

walt — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:55:11 +0000

Last season, we watched one episode of something we’d missed–Men in Trees, I think–on my 19″ LCD, I believe from abc.com, and the quality was indeed a lot better than we expected.

Not quite the same thing as on our decade-old 32″ TV, though, much less a high-def big screen (somewhere down the road…)

Now, if any reader knows of a DVR (maybe a DVD recorder with hard disk?) that doesn’t require a monthly subscription fee…and isn’t outrageously expensive: Let me know. Around here, that market category seems to have disappeared.

By: Karin Dalziel

Karin Dalziel — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:38:03 +0000

I am really enjoying Pushing Daisies, which I watch (in surprisingly good quality) on abc.com.