Premiere Week!

A few months ago we decided to cut back on our bills and cancel cable TV. It was a tough transition, I lost Food Network, Grant lost the Speed channel, but what I missed most was my DVR. I realized I could be perfectly happy with just the network channels, but having the ability to fast forward through commercials and watch the shows whenever worked for me.

Grant never ceases to amaze me. When he wants to do something, he finds a way to make it happen, whether he knows how to or not at the time. He researches, reads, talks to people, etc. until he finds out how to complete a project, and thus, our homemade DVR was born!

For the cost of 2.5 months of cable with DVR, we are now able to use our computer to record our favorite shows (it even has a guide of the channels we get through the digital antenna and we can set it to record a series, etc. just like we were used to), and they save on to our external storage.


Then, we can either watch them on the desktop upstairs, or pull up the stroage on the laptop downstairs, plug our laptop downstairs into the TV with the HDMI cable, and watch it just like we were watching TV, able to FF, pause, rewind, etc, from the controls on the laptop. We tried it out last week and it worked beautifully.

So, needless to say, I am very excited about premiere weeks (last week and this week) because even though I have class every night from 5-9, I am still able to come home and enjoy the shows I missed!!!