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With a DVR, you can not watch something you missed. You can watch something that you remember ahead of time to tell your DVR to record for you, or that miracul

• mbreese 15y ago
  Right, if you miss it, you miss it. It has other flaws too - I have shows recorded on my DVR from last summer that I thought I would watch. They've sat at the bottom of the list since then. But, when you take the subscription for what it is - the best delivery vehicle a wide variety of HD content - then it isn't bad. You just have to live with the limitation. It's not like streaming content online isn't without it's limitations. If I missed an episode of "Top Shot" for example on History, I still couldn't see it on Hulu until the next day.
  • VikingCoder 15y ago
    ...the fact that you can't watch it on Hulu until the next day is NOT a technology problem.
• rkudeshi 15y ago
  The upcoming "Hopper" DVR from Dish Network solves this problem in an ingenious way. They have a feature called "Primetime Anytime" that records the entirety of primetime (8-11pm) programming on the 4 major broadcast networks (NBC, Fox, ABC, CBS) for the last 8 days. That means you can turn on your DVR and watch anything that aired in primetime in the last week. The way they achieve this is by silently recording the networks in the background. The DVR has a 2TB hard drive, of which about 500GB is allocated to this feature, I believe. (Note that doing it this way also absolves Dish of having to negotiate with the networks a la Hulu.)