There is this new concept in video technology called a digital video recorder. Okay, well it’s not really all that new. But it is new to a lot of people. It allows you to record and store literally hundreds of hours of television without cassette tapes.

The thing that struck me as really amazing was the capability of just setting the thing to record you favorite show and then letting it take care of the scheduling and the recording and whatnot. It takes the guesswork out of taping a TV program.

Now I suddenly have the capacity to have everything done for me. I don’t have to screw around with VHS tapes, or recording schedules. The DVR fills in all the blanks. What’s more is the DVR does a better job of recording and does it in higher quality audio and video. Even better, it allows you to skip commercial breaks.

Fortunately, in the time since I read the first articles about this technology, the cost has plummeted. I did a little bit of research and came up with the Panasonic Replay TV as the best option for me. I liked the fact that it was a brand I knew. And it seems to do an amazing job except for a little bit of frozen frame issues from time to time.

It freezes up every so often, but besides that it works absolutely wonderfully now as it did when I bought it.

DVRs have become pretty ubiquitous since then. Everybody seems to have one, whether they get it from the cable company or on their own. Naturally, the newer ones have improved a lot over the older ones, with better and stronger design.

I almost never watch TV live these days. I almost take it for granted that at one point not so long ago, I had to watch TV shows when the network scheduled them and not on my own time. These things are truly a revolution.

Right now, in fact, I’m planning a little date with my favorite television program. I have almost a dozen episodes recorded over the past few months. I couldn’t have done that a few years ago.

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