Electronics

[Gokat]

Glad to see someone FINALLY made themselves available to answer your questions...even if the answers weren't all what you wanted to hear.   Yes, technology waits for no man, I'm afraid, @Frosted Cake.   

[glb613]

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@Frosted Cake wrote:

Had the cable guy out today.

Fixed the TV's as a main cable was faulty.   Good news.

Bad news, my DVD -Recorder will be obsolete come the day of the change over to digital.   It won't record ever again after that.  

Even if I do an automatic channel search, the new stations will not show even now.    So, I'm out of my recorder, it will just play movies and recorded DVD's.   

Of course, they want me to buy a DVR from them.  I can't afford it so no way.  

We are all so controlled by technology.   They should make things compatible.   Oh well.   Everyone is in your pockets.

 BUY???  I rent the DVR I use.  I'm sure I've paid for it 3 times over by now. 

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[hckynut]

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@Frosted Cake wrote:

Had the cable guy out today.

Fixed the TV's as a main cable was faulty.   Good news.

Bad news, my DVD -Recorder will be obsolete come the day of the change over to digital.   It won't record ever again after that.  

Even if I do an automatic channel search, the new stations will not show even now.    So, I'm out of my recorder, it will just play movies and recorded DVD's.   

Of course, they want me to buy a DVR from them.  I can't afford it so no way.  

We are all so controlled by technology.   They should make things compatible.   Oh well.   Everyone is in your pockets.

I have been into technology since the mid 1950's, and nobody or nothing has ever controlled what my choices of how to use it, $$$$ or otherwise.

If you want certain things, buy or rent them. If you cannot afford them? Do like I have always done and save for them.  Never could get why some think others or other entities control their purse strings, and that includes heat and cooling.

hnj

[GingerPeach]

Are you sure they said "buy" the DVR and not "rent as part of the package you are paying for"?  @Frosted Cake

The rest of this post is just optional and not meant to muddy the issue.

Depending on your budget, it may be more cost effective to buy one, or so I've read.  On the other hand, if you rent you ought to be able to upgrade (at no addl cost) to a more modern recorder whenever the cable provider company has new ones available.   (Anyway, that's how my cable company does it.  I'm not saying that they always have more modern ones available or that they modernize them all that often.)