You can’t have a fully-wired, bandwidth-efficient house without a Digital Video Recorder (DVR). If you attempt to live the digital life sans DVR, it’ll be impossible to ever get your money’s worth out of your monthly investment (cough) in a cable or satellite television subscription. Folks without a TiVo or other DVR often fail to grasp the value proposition, but it all basically comes down to this…

Without a DVR, you are throwing out money on those pay television bills, because you inevitably miss the shows that you really want to watch. It only starts with the concept of time-shifting.

Okay, so the technology might not be life-changing, but it sure will optimize any time you get to spend in front of the tube. My TiVo lets me watch exactly what I want to watch, when I want to watch it.

Recording broadcasts is just one aspect of it. Discovering the shows you would have missed? That’s the magic.

How cool is the ability to discover movie broadcasts from your favorite actors, actresses, and directors?

Very cool.

Just plug in a wish list and your TiVo will go to work for you…

Related: Skipping Commercials with TiVo, DirecTV

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