Will the wife/girlfriend admit "she loves it"?

[Torque]

My wife jumped onboard quite a few months ago. When friends come over, the PVR is always a hot topic... they want to know what it can do now and usually my wife is the one to run them thru everything Getting "permission" to add parts is easy now.

[reboot]

It's hard for people to think of the PC as a electronic digital video recorder.

Yes!
You have no idea how many people just don't get it.
They can't seem to grasp the concept of a TV card's abilities.
I know at least a dozen people who use it to watch a bit of TV while surfing, and have never considered hooking it up to a TV, or using PVR software.
When I visit, I usually (sometimes surreptitiously) install gbpvr
10 minutes later, we're on the way to the store for a couple of cables, to hook it all up to the TV.

[nitrogen_widget]

My wife will be onboard when I get my GBPVR system set-up in my PC room to record off the extra sattelite reciever.
Once I start recording my home improvement shows on it & stop hogging all the space on the TIVO she will be very happy.

[stefan]

My wife says "it's ok". But I think she loves it.

By the way... wonder what the percentage of people on the board being wives/girlfriends is =)

[kayleigh]

My boyfriend was sure I was just wasting my time building yet *another* computer and fiddling around just to learn something new. Then he saw me burning DVDs for my mother (she doesn't get cable and wants to see a cable-only documentary now & again) and testing them on the DVD player in the living room. He thought the show was airing again until I stopped the DVD and said, "That looks good." He couldn't believe the quality. Now half of my PVR space is going to old episodes of "Beavis & Butt-Head." I'm about ready to get a PVR500 so I don't have to negotiate getting my shows recorded.

[tkgafs]

Just found a great way of improving Wife acceptance factor

Load up a pile of christmas Cds then point the music player plugin at them and start random playing

as she is currently decorating a christmas tree this has been a big sucess

Her :- this is good, could we load a pile of music for a party ?
Me :- Yes of course we could but I'll need another sound card to ship around the house and maybe a couple of .....

tkgafs

[Torque]

Her :- this is good, could we load a pile of music for a party ?
Me :- Yes of course we could but I'll need another sound card to ship around the house and maybe a couple of .....
tkgafs

Yess!

[joe chan]

you can count me in also as one of the girls here too Joe short for Joanna

[ydekmekji]

My wife just never got it... I kept trying to explain it, but she just couldn't conceive of the idea--now she's an evangelist for it!

PS I'm curious--Joe/Joanna... does your husband or boyfriend "love it"?

[homerjatmoes]

We have had a Series 1 TiVo for at least 5 years now and it is still our main PVR. We also have an HD DVR from the cable company, a Scientific Atlanta 8300 which in my opinion is the worst PVR interfaces on the planet, hopefully Cisco will fix that.

I added the GBPVR so I could record some shows to DVD so my wife could use them in her classroom (she's a science teacher). I then moved to using two MVP's to share the recordings to our two tv's. My wife has not really used the GBPVR much but plans to master it next week during Christmas Break. I think having TiVo already has made the addition of GBPVR system an easier adjustment.

I really like GBPVR but I still hold the operation and interface of the TiVo as the benchmark of all PVR's. Granted the TiVo is not as flexible but it does what it is advertised to do very well.