CLEANING UP THE DVR
My efforts at recording tons of stuff while away were only partly successful. Bell ExpressVu's Personal Video Recorder has a few bugs I imagine TiVo doesn't have. It records by time, not by name, so when the event changes, you wind up with recordings of shows you didn't want to record. It does not work reliably when turned off (but plugged in) so you wind up with shows taped but durations of 0:00, which doesn't help -- a "known bug," or as we used to call it in computer science, "an undocumented misfeature." It sometimes clips off the tags of shows -- Bell ExpressVu blames the network airing the show, but that doesn't help me!
And, of course, shows tend to air repeats around the holidays.
And I didn't get back in time to tape 24. Grrr. If this were TiVo I could have contacted my DVR by the Net, couldn't I? Ah well.
I have to remember to tape Point Pleasant on the 19th.