Sleepy Hollow! It’s longer and left off on a much bigger cliffhanger. You miss more if you miss a Sleepy Hollow episode than a TBBT episode. Also, Sleepy Hollow is a WAY better show (and it’s only just getting on its feet yet!), imho.
You can also get both on iTunes (individually or as a season pass), although it costs money.
Another vote for Sleepy Hollow over Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory is like an old boyfriend: He took you on some dates and you had a fun time and laughed til the end, then you stayed with him for a couple years and realized that he ONLY takes you to the same 3 places and it’s stopped being fun
Sleepy Hollow is a new boyfriend who takes you to some of the same places your old boyfriend did, but also takes you to new ones, takes you to ones that combine both dates, and is just starting to come into his own as a date
I still have a VCR, and I even still use it occasionally for taping broadcast TV shows to watch later. However, I’m pretty sure I lost the ability to watch one show while taping another on it a few years ago when TV broadcasts went digital.
And even if you had a tape, the tuner inside of your VCR won’t work ever since the digital switchover - you would need a dedicated cable box (which, in turn, is set up to output a standard-definition signal) set to the right channel, then hooked up to one of the VCR’s auxiliary inputs (Sony calls them “Line In”).
There’s always CBS or Fox On Demand online, although I don’t know how long you have to wait before the episode is available.
Besides - knowing Fox, they’ll run Gotham long by a minute or two to force you to watch Sleepy Hollow rather than miss the first minute of BBT.
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Do you have any friends or family that would be willing to tape the episode of one of the shows for you? ** You may have to call around a bit** to find someone who still has a VCR.
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(Emphasis mine.) Or, I dunno, read post #5? 
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And even if you had a tape, the tuner inside of your VCR won’t work ever since the digital switchover - you would need a dedicated cable box {snip}.
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Since both SH and TBBT are OTA/broadcast, a pay-TV provider’s box isn’t needed. You can use one of those government-subsidized converter boxes* to feed the signal into either the “Antenna In” or “Line In” jack on the VCR.
*Yeah, I have one of those, too. Not, a Luddite, just dirt poor. :o
Maybe looking at some production stills from the first new episode of The Big Bang Theory will help you make up your mind.
Penny’s cut her hair!
Oh man! I was 90% Sleepy Hollow. Was.
Gotham comes on at 8pm. SH comes on at 9. Is it somehow different in your neck of the woods?
Also, BBT will have an hour premiere
I have a Roamio with 6 tuners, so I ain’t suffering for the first time in forever
At my house, we have the THIRD part of the dilemma that they both interfere with Dancing with the Stars (*she *has to watch it, and it has to be live). The DVR only has two tuners, so something’s gotta give.
We’ll probably watch BBT on-demand. On-demand is much more annoying than a DVRed show, so it gets the shorter one.
I have the cable wire split, so it goes to the TV as well as to the cable box. So when there are three things I want to watch, I let the DVR tape two of them and watch one directly on the TV. It only works for stuff you can watch without needing the cable box (basically non-premium channels). But that would work for Dancing with the Stars, BBT or Sleepy Hollow.
You have saved me! I swear when I checked Sleepy Hollow was coming on at 8. It’s not! The network guys can live.
It’s nice to know someone is still posting to the SDMB via optical telegraph though.
The idea of being forced to watch one show at a time (and real time at that) is … quaint.
I managed to upgrade/swap my DVRs so they are both lifetime, dual tuners. 4 shows at once.
Had to, recording just two shows at once was too limiting.
The new TiVo Mega sounded interesting: 24TB of storage. But a piddly 6 tuners. If I’m spending $5k on a DVR, 6 isn’t going to cut it.
If you want to get angry at networks, complain about starting shows late due to speeches and sports events. I’ve missed large chunks of shows this week.
Just saw the pic, and will start thread about it, but…WTF would possess her to get THAT haircut?! I smell a “Felicity” redux.
Right now I have Dish Network with their DVR. If I got rid of their DVR, could I use an external one like Tivo? I’m seriously considering cutting way back on my TV viewing and going down to the most basic package, because I wouldn’t receive broadcast channels otherwise, I think. I live out in the middle of nowhere. With as little as I watch anymore, it’s stupid to pay what I’m paying for what I’m using.
StG
Waitaminute, is THAT why you started that thread? :dubious:
TiVo and the sat networks are “not comfortable together” thanks to lawsuits, turf wars ($), etc. Especially Dish Network.
The last TiVos that were compatible with sat systems were the old TiVo 2 models. Analog SD recording and single tuner only. The TiVo uses an IR control cable to switch channels on the sat box.
DirecTV has DVRs that are “TiVo on the inside” plus there’s an old SD TiVo model with DirecTV built-in that has 2 tuners.