whose your cable through? Are you using a digital cable box? Can you get one with a dvr? That's what we did. not as fancy as tivo, but gets the job done. don't have to pay anything extra for ...

we do have optimum. We could get a cable box with DVR but that's the same $10/month that I was trying to avoid. Also, if you ever upgrade your box, what happens to all the stuff you have on your bo...

Do you plan on keeping a lot of shows saved on your DVR?

hmm. I'd like to at least keep it on my portable USB hard drive. Burning something to DVD every time I want to keep it seems silly. But yeah I'd want to keep stuff, movies or specials or whatever. ...