re: This freaking storm

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On my DVR, you can't actually record when there's no power. But if you have it on the channel you want to watch (before the power goes out), you can rewind it when the power comes back on. On mine, you can rewind about 6 hours, I think, so this may not help depending on how long the power's out.

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uh, what kind of magical DVR do you have?

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Where are all the "Direct TV is so much cheaper and better" folk now?

Things like this are exactly why I would never switch to the dish.

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then you are a idiot. I had DTV during Katrina, ran it off a generator all night in the upper 9 while the "cox'ers" had zilch nada nothing

I won't lose signal during this, power is different that DTV btw so you really are clueless

Motel? Cheaper and likely better picture at a sportsbar. Who goes to a motel?

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Motel? Cheaper and likely better picture at a sportsbar. Who goes to a motel?

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I am assuming the guy who made the post I responded to was talking about a situation where the power goes out in his AREA, and he drives until he finds a motel with it's lights on. If he's 40-50 miles from home, he probably has no clue where the nearest sports bar is, or even if there IS one if he has stopped in a small town on an Interstate exit...

Not rant material.

If you are worried about power going out, go out tomorrow and get a $9 antenna from radio shack and a $35 inverter from Home Depot (see below). You can run a TV on the inverter for hours and hours just starting the car battery every so often. If you have a deep cycle marine battery, it is even easier. Rig up the carport, put a tv out there and watch the game over the air in HD.

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