“The Wiggles” had a marathon and my idiot VCR booted both House and Big Bang Theory.
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Any ideas on how to see this week’s episodes? Amazon? Hulu? Who’s got 'em?
House in on Hulu. Big Bang Theory is a CBS show so it won’t be on Hulu, but I think you can get it on iTunes. (You’ll have to pay for it though.)
I’m assuming you have a DVR rather than a VCR. If so, set up your series recordings to only keep at most 3 episodes, or some other reasonable number, rather than keep all episodes. That way marathons won’t kill all your other recordings. You can also set your most precious recordings to keep until you delete rather than until space is needed.
The current season of Big Bang Theory isn’t available on iTunes (though the first season is; go figger). I don’t know of anyplace it’s available legally.
I missed this week’s episode too.
People still record programs on VCRs?
House is delayed eight days online, however. Which means you won’t be able to see it until next Tuesday, the 24th, at the earliest. This applies to both Hulu and Fox.com. There’s also USA Network, which will rerun this weeks episode Friday of next week, the 27th.
Yep, DVR. :smack: What can I say? I am old. . .
Thanks all!
Hell yes. The advantages of a DVR over a VCR don’t justify the price for me. I never understood what was supposed to be so hard about programming the things anyway.
Aren’t they practically giving DVRs away in cereal boxes now? 
Seriously, as awesome and convenient as setting up a series is to record on a DVR, that’s only like 30% of the advantage over VCRs. The copious amounts of digital storage. Pausing & rewinding live television. No more tapes, or not knowing what show is on which tape or if you’ve seen it yet. Skipping the commercials… I could go on. They’re the best. Go get one, then come back and thank me.
You’re welcome.
DVR’s are fantastic.
You can compress an hour show into 40 minutes. My typical routine is to set up the shows I want to watch for an evening and start about 45 minutes after they start.
If I am watching a sports event in the afternoon. I do something outside for about 30 minutes (yardwork, walk the dog, etc.) and then come back, catch my breath and catch up the event. When i catch up, its time to do something worthwhile and repeat the process. I have mowed the lawn while watching a baseball game this way.
Oh, I’m sure if you watch a lot of television a DVR is absolutely the way to go. But if you’re like me, and you have about one hour of television per week that you’re actually interested in watching, which you probably have no need to time-shift anyway, a DVR is major overkill.
Just saying, they’re not for everybody. It wouldn’t be worth the trouble for me to even set it up, because the VCR is already sitting right there ready to go.