"How do you treat yours?"

I gave my Mum an 80GB Freeview PVR for Christmas, all installed and 
demonstrated as part of the pressie, naturally.

Went over again last week and checked she was OK with it. No problem, 
she's been using it all the time, hasn't used the VCR since she got it.

What surprised me was that when I looked, she had *nothing* recorded on 
it. Nothing at all.

While I was there she quickly set it up to record something we were 
talking over, so I know it isn't that she hasn't dared to touch it, she 
does actually know how to drive it fluently.

I can't imaging ending up with nothing on mine - it's a constant battle 
to watch (or ignore) some recorded things to make space for something 
else.

So who's weird, me or her?  (In this strictly limited context, of 
course ;-)

"PCPaul"  wrote in message 
news:pgnrj.4641$XI.1937@text.news.virginmedia.com...
> "How do you treat yours?"
>
> I gave my Mum an 80GB Freeview PVR for Christmas, all installed and
> demonstrated as part of the pressie, naturally.
>
> Went over again last week and checked she was OK with it. No problem,
> she's been using it all the time, hasn't used the VCR since she got it.
>
> What surprised me was that when I looked, she had *nothing* recorded on
> it. Nothing at all.
>
> While I was there she quickly set it up to record something we were
> talking over, so I know it isn't that she hasn't dared to touch it, she
> does actually know how to drive it fluently.
>
> I can't imaging ending up with nothing on mine - it's a constant battle
> to watch (or ignore) some recorded things to make space for something
> else.
>
> So who's weird, me or her?  (In this strictly limited context, of
> course ;-)
>



those of us who record piles of stuff just in case are the weird ones.
your mother records stuff she actually wants to watch - and then watches it!
she's the sensible one.



-- 
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:35:49 GMT, PCPaul  wrote:

>"How do you treat yours?"
>
>I gave my Mum an 80GB Freeview PVR for Christmas, all installed and 
>demonstrated as part of the pressie, naturally.
>
>Went over again last week and checked she was OK with it. No problem, 
>she's been using it all the time, hasn't used the VCR since she got it.
>
>What surprised me was that when I looked, she had *nothing* recorded on 
>it. Nothing at all.
>
>While I was there she quickly set it up to record something we were 
>talking over, so I know it isn't that she hasn't dared to touch it, she 
>does actually know how to drive it fluently.
>
>I can't imaging ending up with nothing on mine - it's a constant battle 
>to watch (or ignore) some recorded things to make space for something 
>else.
>
>So who's weird, me or her?  (In this strictly limited context, of 
>course ;-)

Neither of you is weird. You just use them differently. I fall
somewhere in between. There's always some stuff on my hard drive, but
I delete stuff that I know I won't watch again.

Peter.