Originally Posted by MyBud

Being able to record without commercials would be cool but I since I had a VCR hooked up to my system I recorded tons of stuff off the dish and just fast forwarded thru the commercials. Movies on the movie channels didn't have commercials so that wasn't a problem and I still have some of them. My problem was, except for movies which I planned to keep anyway, most of the time I never seemed to find the time to watch half of what I recorded and I would not pay extra for Tivo even if I had it.