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we usually pvr, but i find that since we seldom get a chance to watch everything, the pvr fills up pretty quick. downloading seems to be a bit better in that there are no commercials, less concern about saving space, and you can watch it on whatever device floats your boat.

but yet, we still pvr.

d/l

i suck at ff through commercials... plus pvr requires that you have the channel for that show.

the skip button is pretty good at getting past the commercials. but i guess you still have to press that button.

yeah but the skip button is never exact, so i'll always overshoot it a bit and have to rewind a bit, and if you are undershot you have no idea by how much...

even if you d/l had commercials in it for some reason, you can ff much easier on your typical media player.

yeah, the thing i don't like about pvr is that there aren't any chapters. there are times when i accidentally rewind to the beginning for whatever reason, but i have to forward through the entire show to get to where i was. if i could skip by say, 10 minutes at time, that would be nice.

d/l

that's a pw if i ever saw one.

I didn't know pw was an option.

Fine - d/l because it's so much easier to just wait until the season is over and then d/l it all at once.

ZOMG WAIT????

you mean you're not going to stand in line to be the first to watch this show????
lol, i find it hilarious that people actually do that. the movie/show/hot new device is going to be the same next week when you don't have to stand in line for it.

Haha, sometimes I can't wait to watch some shows. Mostly I don't like to wait 1 week at a time to find out what's going to happen next.

i remember when roland and i were watching 24 on dvd, and he was like "i can't imagine having to wait a week to see what happens next... because that "doot... doot... doot... doot..." part is almost too much". lol. good ol' roland.

Speaking of 24... it got so boring that I didn't even end up watching any parts of the last season.

the last season was better than the season before it i think. but it was getting pretty stupid.

speaking of which, i just emailed roland haha. i haven't talked to that guy in a while.

pvr if you have it because once you've set the series recording, everything's done for you. as for the commercials, the 30 second skip is nice and i can't remember if shaw had this but the telus pvr remote has a back 7 second skip. so you over shoot it and you're seconds into the show after the commercials, you can back it up 7 seconds at a time until you've got it to where you want it to be... that's a nice feature. come to think of it, i don't remember shaw having that. but because of that, i don't mind the pvr.

i only d/l if i want to watch a whole series that has been completed or movies that are obviously not on tv yet.

shaw has that back button. i think it goes back 10 seconds though.
there was a time when i skipped ahead like 15 minutes, but i have no idea how i did it.