Taped Up
I have one of those hard drive recorders. It is both new and fangled and it is great.
Trouble is (“Here he goes” - reader’s voice) is that now stuff turns up that I just don’t have time to watch. Stuff I never would have watched if I didn’t have the inclination to be there to watch it when it was on, except now I don’t have to be. I can just have shows and worry about the time part later.
Scrubs. How I Met Your Mother (On at 2am? No problem. Cheesy but well written). Family Guy. History channel. Tribe. Reruns of The West Wing.
Now I need a time machine to allow me to watch all the stuff I have taped.
- No, not “taped”. Stop saying “taped”. Your children will tell people years from now that their dad used to say “taped”.
- Recorded.
-That is better.
Sessions on BBC4. Recorded. No, don’t delete it. I will watch that. Sometime.
A season celebrating 100 Years Of Filming Wildlife? Zap.
Animated classics - Beowulf (how does my spellchecker know Beowulf??? Did Viking discover laptops as well now?) Zap. Moby Dick. Zap.
Zap zap zap zap zap.
It’s like credit cards for live TV. It’s too easy.
If you’re like me, then you watch films you own when they come on TV just because they are on. But recording films that you own? I have done this.
I have written about too much choice, but really I think the problem lies with me. I’m better informed, but need to get better at making decisions. You know, those little things you have before you choose? I don’t do that. I’m like a slut in a boner shop.
I need a more methodical approach to my consumption before time completely runs out and my last words are: “I was going to watch that”.
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August 30th, 2007 at 9:33 am
This is extremely familiar. Painfully so, infact.
My own generic hard disk recorder is one of the older models, so only has about 20 hours of capacity, which runs out very quickly indeed when you watch something good, and then press the ’series link’ button. There have been many times when I’ve avoided TV for a few days, and come back to it only to realise the first few things I recorded have been overwritten. Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
That said, the only thing I have watched live in the last year or so is football. So TV no longer dictates my schedule.
August 30th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
you *could*, and i realise this is a radical suggestion, just ditch the recorder and not bother with TV at all unless you’re in and it’s on and you’re not doing anything else. that way you don’t have to decide and you’ll have more time for other stuff. maybe? Scrubs is rubbish anyway. i didn’t think so at first, but i’ve seen the light.
recorder doesn’t sound right. it makes me think of small children in blue sweaters playing London’s Burning.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Angry - Twenty hours? How do you cope? That’s not even a day!
Meester - you are missing the point. What you have just done there is come up with the idea of watching less TV.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I don’t watch anything if it doesn’t come off a dvd
August 31st, 2007 at 5:29 am
Ed: Thats because all you watch is porn.
Cliff: Have you watched Extra’s? I must know what you think of it. What about Flight of the Conchords?
August 31st, 2007 at 5:32 am
The best thing about Scrubs is the music.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:19 am
Dawn - I LOVE Extras. “But of course, it’s too late, because I’ve seen everythimg.” “Definitely play a mental.” “You were great in The Matrix.”
All good. Also, Maggie’s got something I quite like.
August 31st, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Wait- porn comes on dvd now?