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The Only Remaining Question: Why should you buy online and from us?

The answer to this is PRICE. Depending upon where you live, you have probably a good dozen choice of offline and local stores to buy your equipment from. Places like Walmart and KMart; Sears and Target, Best Buy and Circuit City. We all sell the same merchandise, but some of us sell it for less. We don't have the overhead, and pass that on to you. Again, depending on where you live, you may have to pay a local sales tax which "mail order" or online bypasses. And again, if you are not close to one of these stores, you have the convenience. We'll bring it to you. You can shop in your bathrobe.  The only reservation some people have is "service". Well, service in most of the stores we named means they send it back to the manufacturer for you if it's more than a day old.. in which case if you  got a bad unit, and want to return it to the store, you may get a replacement one right on the spot.. if it's in stock. Otherwise, it's the manufacturer's warranty. We're all the same there. But online you often have tech support that you don't have in the "big box" stores. As to the smaller independents... nice guys, but again, it comes down to price.

Buy a name brand product you have researched, and we'll talk to you and help you compare, and it all boils down to price. We won't always have the best becasue "always" is a big word, and sometimes, a competitor will run a special as a loss leader or a package.. but other than that, you get the best price from us, plus quality and convenience.

"The Big Picture: Selecting your DVR"

DVRs are quickly replacing VCRs

Questions:

• Are you considering the purchase of a Digital Video Recorder?
• Do you know everything you really need to know about buying a Digital Video Recorder?

If not, you have found the right place.

If your  answer to the first question is, "Probably",the only remaining question is "When?" . And if you  can't answer "Yes" to the second question, you need this site.

Technology advances so quickly, and the main points in answering the "when" question have to do with costs and standardization of technology.

For home use, there are actually two main choices centered around the "Digital Video Recorder" technology.

• One choice is owning your own equipment, and most popular brand is the TiVO, although a web site search will show machines by Sony and others. It has generally been coming down in price. But another option exists for those with home computers and a little knack for technology, because a fairly standard personal desktop computer can be set up to actually do the Digital Video Recorder tasks.

One of the major costs here is for those who want to save their recording, and this means having a good DVD recorder. A few years ago, these were out of financial limits for all but the very well heeled, but now, they are within range of most middle income home budgets.

• But there is one other option available to very many, and that is the service offered by many tv cable service providers. At the moment, this is limited to those who provide digital cable.. but that number is increasing daily as me move toward mandated digital transmission.

This option saves the consumer the capital expense.. which isn't always bad, except that the equipment in today's fast paced world of electronic advances essentially means that within some relatively short period this equipment may be obsolete.

Formats may change as can any other number of things.

Probably the best thing a consumer can do, when they look at the options, is to first ask themselves, "What is the intended use of the Digital Video Recorder?". "How many hours of recording at a time before we watch the show(s)? "Will we want to have a permanent recording so we can watch multiple times.. or is this to temporarily delay, and maybe watch once but eliminate commercials?" "Will the equipment I'm getting auto-eliminate commercials?"

Once that is decided, take a look at the purchase cost and figure out an obsolescence period. Four years is a good round figure. Then calculate the monthly cost of ownership.

After that, see what the monthly service fees are from your cable company (if available at all) and make sure you are comparing feature for feature.

With this basic information, you are on the path to making an intelligent decision.