If you are still putting yourself through the daily problems and hassles caused by cable TV maybe it is time to look at your other options. I am sure that everyone who has ever owned a cable box and or cable service could make a list a mile long of problems they have had with cable. Not only is cable extremely limited in it’s own field (entertainment in general) there are countless other problems that many people have grown to accept as a standard. The first thing that the regular behind the times guy (or girl) needs to realize is that cable has become completely and totally obsolete. Now with satellite TV from DirecTV you will not even have to rush home from work to catch your favorite show (with the risk of missing it) anymore! How about dealing with a Video Cassette Recorder (also known as the VCR)? Who doesn’t have a long list of stories detailing the problems they have had with one of those old fashioned devices? Everyone knows how much trouble it is to try to set up their VCR to record a program later in the day. There really is no guarantee that it will record the show. How about simply recording on the wrong speed and ending up only getting the first half of the show. Boy that is really the most frustrating part, you were all hyped to see the new episode, and now you have to wait and hear about the ending from your friend who has TiVo and a Digital Video Recorder (also known as the DVR).

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I have a wooden cabinet that houses my PS3, my audio receiver, a 5 disc cd changer/radio, and my cable box DVR. The temperatures get way too hot in the cabinet! Currently I have drilled many 3 inch holes in the back of the cabinet, but without a fan or something to circulate the air, the heat is trapped and will drastically reduce the life of my precious items. The cabinet sits about an inch from the wall. If I could connect a couple of computer fans onto the wood, I believe that would produce adequate air circulation .My problem is that I do not have a computer by the TV, and I am not sure what I can use to power 5 fans. I was suggested to purchase a computer power supply, which has the plug-ins for computer fans, but I thought I might need additional hardware, such as a motherboard, or also software, such as an operating system, to tell the power supply to power the fans. Please let me know if you have any ideas, or have made something yourself. Thanks!

i have a DVD home theater system from Venturer and Comcast Cable Box remote control (the one with "On Demand" and "My DVR" buttons).

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Does the TV have to be on and set to the channel for it to record? Last week I set it to record a show “all episodes” but my TV was off as was the cable/DVR box. Did I do something wrong- I checked and the show has NOT been recorded.

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I have an HD DVR box from time warner cable it has 160gb hard drive in it, i have a 500gb hard drive sitting here at home brand new with nothing on it. can i replace the hard drive meaning can i just swap them out, or is there some sort of operating system on the exsisting hard drive that the cable box needs to run.?

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