# The DVRs in Purgatory/Limbo **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127 "2012-10-08T20:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/1 "2012-10-08T20:26:08Z")
I’m supposing this has been posed before with slightly different approaches, but… Scenario: As predicted by many, after you die you follow the white light to the waiting room, where you take a number. In the meantime, there are TV screens hooked up to "DVR"s, where you can call up ANY event in human/earth’s history and watch it as it happened (multiple angles too, if need be). There’s enough screens for everyone - no waiting. No judgement is passed regarding what you view. So, what do you watch first? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/2 "2012-10-08T20:42:46Z")
Jesus’s teachings and resurrection as a refresher course for the upcoming interview. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/3 "2012-10-08T20:43:31Z")
Probably stuff from my mom and dad’s life. They’re both gone, and I miss them a lot. Maybe some stuff from my marriage and/or my family. I would imagine there would be time to watch stuff from the 16th century or whatever later on… ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/4 "2012-10-08T20:44:40Z")
does this include smell-a-vision? 3D? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/5 "2012-10-08T20:58:52Z")
Completely misunderstood the thread title. Thought this was about DVDs that have been rumored to be coming for a long time but haven’t shown up yet. ---
**Author:** ![qualityleashdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/9f8e36/32.png) [@qualityleashdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qualityleashdog)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/6 "2012-10-09T14:43:55Z")
I’d have to watch the B-29s bombing Tokyo and other cities during WWII. And I’d have to follow Daniel Boone around for awhile. There’s a lot of debate about his life, and I’d like to have a few things settled for myself. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/7 "2012-10-09T19:27:51Z")
I myself find it difficult to answer… JFK assassination? Moses parting the Red Sea? Jesus’ Resurrection? Signing of the Declaration of Independence? … ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/8 "2012-10-09T22:06:10Z")
I’d follow Alexander the Great. I’d use fast-forward a lot. (Can I get translation via subtitles?) ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/9 "2012-10-09T22:31:52Z")
> [@qualityleashdog](#): > > I’d have to watch the B-29s bombing Tokyo and other cities during WWII. Why? You can watch film of that now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/10 "2012-10-09T23:00:23Z")
I’d like a few things definitively proven, like Jesus’s existence, what dinosaurs really looked like, what the UFO was that started the whole Roswell bullshit, who really was responsible for various murders currently ambiguously unsolved, that kind of thing. I’d pick dinosaurs first. ---
**Author:** ![smaje1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@smaje1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaje1)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/11 "2012-10-10T00:11:41Z")
The eruption of Pompeii. Dinosaurs! Fast-forward through the breaking apart of Pangea. My wedding day. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/12 "2012-10-10T01:57:50Z")
You’re all wrong. This is a waiting room. You call up any event you want, then the DVR freezes 6 seconds in and there’s no way to unstick it, take out the DVD, or even turn off the machine. Then you wait. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/13 "2012-10-10T02:09:00Z")
> [@smaje1](#): > > Dinosaurs! Bingo. I’d love to see those terrible lizards in action. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/14 "2012-10-10T15:10:53Z")
The very first thing would probably be my brother’s wedding. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/15 "2012-10-10T15:44:37Z")
I have no expectation that my character or nature will change fundamentally after my death. That being the case, given unlimited options of what to watch, I will probably end up watching Arrested Development and late '90s Law and Order for the jillionth time. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dvrs-in-purgatory-limbo/637127/16 "2012-10-10T15:58:40Z")
First thing would be dinosaurs and then God passing in front of moses so I can see Gods’ ass and then some Jesus stuff and then JFK boning Marylin and I’d turn the sound up really loud.