Do you DVR your sports?

[styxfix]

I use the "auto tune" for most of my basketball teams and football teams. If I'm not home when it starts I can go back one hour. I did like how when I had my 921 DVR I could back a full two hours. I do record all the my teams baseball games and still will watch it if I hear the score. I need to know how and why it happen.

 

[SmokeFan14]

I DVR college basketball games. An hour and a half behind seems to be the magic start-time for me. I watch every Sprint Cup race but only after I'm behind by 2 or 3 hours. I record it then "start over". I LOVE MY DVR!

 

[Paul Wozniak]

HD MM, don't jinx it!!! I think they still make them. I mean what am I going do. Get a DVD Player. I don't know how to work a DVD player. Not only that it's better to have something on tape. I mean if you tape a tv show or a sports show a) IF the show is put on DVD you have to pay an arm and a leg for it. B) A lot of sports shows/games are not on DVD. If you want to see last year's Super Bowl, either you tape the full game or your out of luck. As far as tv shows, you have to deal with a lot. Sometimes, they delete scenes. Anything with music gets cut out because they don't have the rights fees and sometimes some of the shows are too expensive to put on DVD.
So in a nutshell, I'm just safer with a VCR.

Time to enter the 21st century, the last company that manufactured VCR's stopped about 3 months ago or so. No new ones being made anymore. BTW, DVD recorders work just like VCR's, and the discs don't disintegrate with age. (Well mine haven't.)

 

[KCK_Halo]

I will often DVR a hockey game to have something to watch later on in the week. During MLB season I will DVR a game that is of special interest that I cannot view in total to watch as soon as convenient.

 

[mccoyrj]

I always DVR LSU games in case I'm not around to see it, and I rewatch Tiger wins sometimes, but delete all losses (can't watch those more than once ). As for other sports events, only if it's a game I really want to see and can't be home, or one that is on while I'm watching another.

 

[HD MM]

Time to enter the 21st century, the last company that manufactured VCR's stopped about 3 months ago or so. No new ones being made anymore. BTW, DVD recorders work just like VCR's, and the discs don't disintegrate with age. (Well mine haven't.)

I'm sorry Met's but I am getting a thrill out of you and your VHS revelation!

Even my 70 something year old Grandma has bought into DVD 5 years ago.

Look, if you can log into the internet, you can use a DVD or DVR. It's not that hard.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

Mets - Do you need some help to stop that annoying 12:00 from that constant blinking?

 

[Mets82]

No I could handle it just fine. I'm just looking at my great VCR!!! I just bought some blank videotapes yesterday!!!! Boy did open a can of worms with this topic.

ROCK Mets82 Hard Place

 

[mccoyrj]

No I could handle it just fine. I'm just looking at my great VCR!!! I just bought some blank videotapes yesterday!!!! Boy did open a can of worms with this topic.

ROCK Mets82 Hard Place

The flea market near my house has a couple of nice 8 track players you might like to buy?!

 

[skysurfer]

interesting that I found this topic today. I DVR'ed the local college basketball game since I am not usually up that early to watch the game from opening tip.

I watched the game this afternoon before the local news so the "surprise" of the outcome was not ruined. It was actually pretty cool in that I skipped all the commercials and watched the game in just over an hour.

 

[skysurfer]

Dude, what are you going to do when your VCR finally kicks the bucket? I don't even know if they still make them.

Dude, digital video recording device. I don't consider those "DVR" since DVR to me has the context of being interfaced or embedded in something (such as the recorder in a satellite receiver, an ATSC set-top digital conversion box or a cable set-top box).

My Panasonic Replay TV (backup to me, DISH DVR being my primary) is like a VCR. It doesn't interface easily with external devices (composite cables to it just like a vcr). It only interfaces with point-and-shoot ease to record a program with its internal off-air analog tuner which will be pretty useless in February. If I wanted to record from a c-band sat receiver or digital conversion box, you'd have to define a recording manually with the composite input selected and then punch in the date and time of the event. It is unlike a VCR and more like a DVR in my sense of the term in that it doesn't record to beta or VHS tape, but rather than internal hard drive. It acts like a VCR in that you can connect SVIDEO or composite to a TV for watching or to a PC tuner card to record something to archive.

 

[cybok0]

I always do. I'll set them to tape and then start watching 1 hour after tipoff/kickoff/first pitch. No commercials. For me, its a great way to watch. The only drawback is if you get a phone call from somebody wanting to talk about a play and you're 1/2 hour behind.

Yes I DVR all the sports I watch, for the reason you give, plus I work the midnight shift, so I miss a lot of games if I didn't record them.

 

[cybok0]

No I could handle it just fine. I'm just looking at my great VCR!!! I just bought some blank videotapes yesterday!!!! Boy did open a can of worms with this topic.

ROCK Mets82 Hard Place

The only thing I use my VCRs for is the clock.

 

[Mr Tony]

My Panasonic Replay TV (backup to me, DISH DVR being my primary) is like a VCR. It doesn't interface easily with external devices (composite cables to it just like a vcr). It only interfaces with point-and-shoot ease to record a program with its internal off-air analog tuner which will be pretty useless in February. If I wanted to record from a c-band sat receiver or digital conversion box, you'd have to define a recording manually with the composite input selected and then punch in the date and time of the event. It is unlike a VCR and more like a DVR in my sense of the term in that it doesn't record to beta or VHS tape, but rather than internal hard drive. It acts like a VCR in that you can connect SVIDEO or composite to a TV for watching or to a PC tuner card to record something to archive.

I've got 3 like that. All are Hard Drives/DVD burners but they work awesome!
As long as I can record something and edit the commercials out that is all I care

 

[Mr Tony]

The only thing I use my VCRs for is the clock.

mine is to copy my old tapes TO DVD

 

[HD MM]

The only thing I use my VCRs for is the clock.

Mines been sitting in my basement, packed away for about 8 years now.

 

[yourbeliefs]

I ditched my VCR years ago. I don't typically DVR sports. I don't DVR the NFL because I'm typically HOME during games, and if I'm away I'm usually close to an internet source or my Sirius Radio so I can keep track with that. My basketball team is the Bulls so I almost never get their games anyways (I can't pay for LP anymore.)

 

[Mets82]

VHS era is winding down - Los Angeles Times

I guess that says it all. But what's funny is that the guy is saying in 3 or 4 yrs. DVD's will be out of existence and replaced by Blu-Ray.

 

[cybok0]

mine is to copy my old tapes TO DVD

I want a stand alone DVD recorder, but haven't gotten one yet.

 

[skysurfer]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-vhs-tapes22-2008dec22,0,4649589.story
I guess that says it all. But what's funny is that the guy is saying in 3 or 4 yrs. DVD's will be out of existence and replaced by Blu-Ray.

I doubt that blu-rays will be penetrated enough in homes enough in 3-4 years to get rid of DVD - unless blu-ray players are going to be $30-50 for the cheap ones that have all the blu-ray specification features and not just the cheapest ones to implement.

I certainly see nothing wrong with DVDs and upconversion setups as upconverting dvd players are now cheap and dvds can be cheap if you wait on those releases that hit the market initially more expensive than your average dvd price.