DTH with recording facility - Yaaaaay!!!!

I had thought of writing quite a bit today, but this broadband is seriously screwing my plans :( I ended up watching Youtube videos instead of writing. I haven't enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching them at home before. So its a brand new experience. I remember my friends kept sending me Youtube links and I would be like, "ummm! My net is damn slow, I'll check it out at office". Well now, "Bring it on baby!! :)"

Work was pretty "blyaah" today. The Model/View thingy was still screwing with me but then just towards the end I found out a way to do what I wanted to do though the process isn't very elegant. In the longer run, I need to learn how to subclass the Abstract classes to get the funda working. I think I'll put up a tutorial once I get done. There isn't a good tutorial on the net to do it. Damn pathetic! Good tutorials can save a lot of time for a lot of people.

Its been quite sometime now since I got the Tata Sky+ but I think it was one of our best investments. Fortunately, my friend Kartik had come down from the US then and he had a similar TV recording box. He sort of enlightened me and showed me how it actually saves time and entertains. He said, "Look buddy, you love watching TV but you don't get the time. The only time you watch TV is probably while you eat or after you come back from office. I am sure you must not be watching more than an hour per day. And you will notice that during this time, you will never see anything worthwhile. You keep flipping channels and end up watching nothing. Get this system, set your timings and record the stuff you wanna watch. Watch it during the small window you get to watch TV."

It was one of the "Ahaaa!" moments :) We got it immediately and soon discovered many more positive points about it. I could record all the FRIENDS episodes and watch them over and over again. Record movies on weekdays and watch them on weekends. In fact, now even if I have the time I record the movie and start watching it an hour after it actually starts. That way, I watch the recorded version and fast forward those gazillion useless advertisements. Super time effective! Specially when you are psychotic enough to pack your schedule so bad that you don't get a breather all day, a TV recorder system really helps you push it up a notch and yet lets you watch your favourite serials and de-stress :)

So if you don't already have one, and you are a die hard TV fan, get it, specially with the World Cup just a few days away :)

Disclaimer: No DTH service is paying me any commission for this, specially Tata Sky. So you can get anyone of them and this is not an advertisement :P