Never rent Dvds - and telly is hit an miss, tho been a few good things on recently on cable. Been watching Covert Affairs (us spy series) and The Almight Johnsons (my kind of stupid humour). Just caught up with Critchly Hall and enjoyed The Hunted - we make some great series just a shame the beeb keeps chopping some of the real good uns! Cant wait for a new White Chapel - excellent series so far.
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Saturday night at the Movies
Sometimes I do see a DVD that I know nothing about and buy it deliberately not reading anything about it on the back so I get the surprise when I watch it, so far I have been lucky as most will agree because this way I have bought
The Green Mile - because it starred Tom Hanks
The Shawshank Redemption - because it starred Morgan Freeman
Probably two of the best films ever to watch without any prior knowledge of the contents
The Green Mile - because it starred Tom Hanks
The Shawshank Redemption - because it starred Morgan Freeman
Probably two of the best films ever to watch without any prior knowledge of the contents
Quote by flower411
Do you just rent a DVD or do you check out what`s on and then moan cos it`s crap ?
Nowadays it's usually something interesting I recorded ages ago on my PVR. I love these things (PVRs) in days of old I use to record stuff on video tapes and as usual I use to end up with a huge pile of unwatched tapes with scribbled titles on the labels. Inevitably something great would be shown on TV (documentary or film) and as usual I'd be out of blank tapes so I had to make the difficult choice to tape over something that I hadn't watched yet or not record the new programme. Decisions, decisions.
So as I said now I have hours and hours of stuff recorded and ready to watch and there's no piles of tapes in sight weyhey!
Whoever invented PVRs is a genius!
Sex God
I don't watch dvd's, and I've no idea what pvr stands for. I watch some telly, american football and rugby mainly, an occasional movie, or the gt. british bake off type of show, but apart from the american football I don't really concern myself with programme content. I'm sitting here now listening to radio 2. In evenings I'll find something interesting to do or I'll go to the pub, 80 paces from my door, and many other venues within 5 mins walk. For many years I didn't have a telly, and I used to wonder how people found time to watch one.
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... I've no idea what pvr stands for. ...
What is a PVR?
Personal video recorders, or PVRs, record television programmes. They're also sometimes called DVRs, or digital video recorders.
Unlike video recorders or DVD recorders, which use removable tapes or discs to store programmes, a PVR records TV to an internal hard disk.
This means that a PVR's storage capacity is huge – more than 100 hours of programming is typical, and the largest can store 250 hours worth of TV before the hard drive is full.
There’s also no degradation in picture and sound quality when you record a programme – when you play it back it’s just as good as watching live TV.
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Freeview+ and Sky+ machines are PVRs
AWOL
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Freeview+ and Sky+ machines are PVRs
As are the Virgin Media V+ and Tivo boxes.
I :inlove: my Tivo... especially as it lets me skip over the adverts (and un-delete deleted progams!
)Back to the original question: I haven't bought/rented a DVD for yonks. We have on-demand films through VM which brings the whole video shop experience into your own living room. I can now spend hours browsing through the virtual shelves looking for something decent to watch, and then realise it's already bedtime! :doh:
Mind you, I did catch a film the other day called ' '. It was surprisingly good, despite having Justin Trousersnake cast as the main character! ;)
Sex God
I've watched "In Time" recenly, and like y'self cubes, I wasn't expecting much from justin whatsisname, but I found it quite enjoyable.
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I :inlove: my Tivo... especially as it lets me skip over the adverts (and un-delete deleted progams!
Wow the Tivo lets you undelete? I've heard good things about Tivo. Definitely the one to go for, once mine packs up (not too soon I hope, they are expensive the bloody things).
We enjoy watching films although don't often watch them on a saturday night cus by the time we are home from footy we are knackered lol
We often buy DVDs from Tesco and HMV and occasionally record from the TV but mostly we seem to watch films from Virgin on demand, watched a good film from there last night
We often buy DVDs from Tesco and HMV and occasionally record from the TV but mostly we seem to watch films from Virgin on demand, watched a good film from there last night
