Don Tiny wrote:
I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt.
No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin.
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| Author: | shakes [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
For argument sake, let's say if you need a cell for work you can still have a basic cell phone that can only be used for work purposes. So which one would you choose if you had to choose one and never again use the other? For me the answer is obvious. No way could I live without a DVR. I could live without a cell phone. Only area that would suffer is I like to use Waze for traffic, but I guess I could just use the GPS built into my car. |
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Cellphone. I probably put my phone down an hour out of the day until I go to sleep. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
I can assure you that one can learn to live w/out a DVR. Nobody ever 'needs' to watch an episode of TV. One might 'need' to make a phone call. |
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| Author: | billypootons [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
on demand helps soften the blow of not having a DVR. so gimmie my cell phone |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Don Tiny wrote: Nobody ever 'needs' to watch an episode of TV. One might 'need' to make a phone call. ...or video something at Lakemoorfest.
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| Author: | GoldenJet [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Cell phone is indispensable Keep the dvr |
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| Author: | Kirkwood [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
cell phone. have had a dvr for 10 years and used it maybe twice? |
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| Author: | Peoria Matt [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Phone |
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| Author: | T-Bone [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
DVR for me. I have a cell phone but mostly just for emergencies or whatever. I often forget it in my car for hours at a time and don't miss it at all. In fact when I take a trip to Milwaukee or Chicago and don't know the way I still write directions on a piece of paper and don't use the phone at all. |
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| Author: | Don Tiny [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Don Tiny wrote: I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
T-Bone wrote: In fact when I take a trip to Milwaukee or Chicago and don't know the way I still write directions on a piece of paper and don't use the phone at all. Who do you yell, "Contact," to when you are trying to start the Model-T?
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| Author: | doug - evergreen park [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
With Netflix and On Demand, phone is a no-brainer. |
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| Author: | FrankDrebin [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:22 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Cellphone for listening to my podcasts. Streaming services take care of the absence of a DVR. |
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| Author: | One Post [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:29 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Isn't a cell phone essentially a DVR these days? |
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| Author: | sjboyd0137 [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 11:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
doug - evergreen park wrote: With Netflix and On Demand, phone is a no-brainer. This |
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Shakes wants to walk around with a brick phone so he can have a few shows on DVR. I have Hulu for free through Sprint, Netflix free through Xomcast and OnDemand has never been better. The only thing that would be a DVR must would be a Bears game and I almost never miss one. |
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| Author: | T-Bone [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
sjboyd0137 wrote: Don Tiny wrote: I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin. Say what you will about Wisconsin, I like it up here. I am very hesitant to embrace technology it's true. I am betting a lot of millenials couldn't even read a map if I gave them one. SAD |
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| Author: | T-Bone [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Nas wrote: Shakes wants to walk around with a brick phone so he can have a few shows on DVR. I have Hulu for free through Sprint, Netflix free through Xomcast and OnDemand has never been better. The only thing that would be a DVR must would be a Bears game and I almost never miss one. Hulu for you should be free since Sprint isn't giving you constant coverage. 
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
T-Bone wrote: Nas wrote: Shakes wants to walk around with a brick phone so he can have a few shows on DVR. I have Hulu for free through Sprint, Netflix free through Xomcast and OnDemand has never been better. The only thing that would be a DVR must would be a Bears game and I almost never miss one. Hulu for you should be free since Sprint isn't giving you constant coverage. 
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| Author: | IMU [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
T-Bone wrote: sjboyd0137 wrote: Don Tiny wrote: I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin. Say what you will about Wisconsin, I like it up here. I am very hesitant to embrace technology it's true. I am betting a lot of millenials couldn't even read a map if I gave them one. SAD No one tell T-Bone how Google Maps works. |
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
T-Bone wrote: sjboyd0137 wrote: Don Tiny wrote: I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin. Say what you will about Wisconsin, I like it up here. I am very hesitant to embrace technology it's true. I am betting a lot of millenials couldn't even read a map if I gave them one. SAD Or knew how it felt when you needed to go to the gas station to get the local map. |
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| Author: | IMU [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Nas is a millennial. |
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
IMU wrote: Nas is a millennial. Depends on who is counting. New millennials will never understand life without technology. |
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| Author: | T-Bone [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
IMU wrote: T-Bone wrote: sjboyd0137 wrote: Don Tiny wrote: I didn't know T-Bone is older than Walt. No shit...to be fair, it's still the mid 90's in Wisconsin. Say what you will about Wisconsin, I like it up here. I am very hesitant to embrace technology it's true. I am betting a lot of millenials couldn't even read a map if I gave them one. SAD No one tell T-Bone how Google Maps works. I know how it works. I refuse to use it because I don't feel like I need it. More challenging when I write it down and not have a robotic voice tell me when to turn left or right. My wife uses it, and I guess it is kind of handy if you are not familiar with where you are going. You can also use it if you are slow and need someone to hold your hand all the way to your destination. 
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| Author: | IMU [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
But it is a map. On a screen instead of a paper, but it is still a map in every way. The map could be used without GPS directions successfully by anyone comfortable using it, and those skills translate to a paper map. I love shit talking people as much as anyone, but let's be realistic here. You old hats don't possess some magical map reading skill set. |
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| Author: | Nas [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
IMU wrote: But it is a map. On a screen instead of a paper, but it is still a map in every way. The map could be used without GPS directions successfully by anyone comfortable using it, and those skills translate to a paper map. I love shit talking people as much as anyone, but let's be realistic here. You old hats don't possess some magical map reading skill set. When CHINA hacks us you're going to wish you read maps. |
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| Author: | IMU [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
Nas wrote: IMU wrote: But it is a map. On a screen instead of a paper, but it is still a map in every way. The map could be used without GPS directions successfully by anyone comfortable using it, and those skills translate to a paper map. I love shit talking people as much as anyone, but let's be realistic here. You old hats don't possess some magical map reading skill set. When CHINA hacks us you're going to wish you read maps. I'm so good at it I don't even use the waypoint feature in Red Dead Redemption 2. |
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| Author: | T-Bone [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
IMU wrote: But it is a map. On a screen instead of a paper, but it is still a map in every way. The map could be used without GPS directions successfully by anyone comfortable using it, and those skills translate to a paper map. I love shit talking people as much as anyone, but let's be realistic here. You old hats don't possess some magical map reading skill set. I can't argue with you, it is an interactive map that is read for you by a computer. I realize I am the one with the problem because I don't use the easiest and most convenient method. Your method also has been proven to me by my better half to show the faster way and options to miss traffic and accidents which my method doesn't account for. it also is more difficult for me in the dark which your method also accounts for. When I grew up I was fascinated by maps and would look at them extensively on road trips in the back seat as a kid or before we would take a trip. I still do it if we are taking a road trip to get a feel where we will be passing by and such. I do truly believe if I were to give a folding, printed map to a 16 year old kid and had him try to figure out how to get to a destination, they would struggle with it. There is not much need for maps anymore, and I am sad for that. I get a hard time at home for digging in my heels and sticking to my old ways. My wife shakes her head every time I buy another expensive boxed set of CD's of music I enjoy. At the gym I still listen to an old iPod Nano that is probably ten years old and not use my phone. These are just additional examples of my old skool tendencies |
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| Author: | billypootons [ Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If you had to choose, your cell phone or your DVR? |
if the question was posed 10 years ago may have an different answer |
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