The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 21, 2022

And nowadays less than one at the same time.

Definitely not in this century.

Not even for March Madness?

You don’t need a VCR to record now days.

How abou a show or movie that was on while you were out or sleeping?

I wonder why Mother Gargoyle and Uncle Ted are never featured together?

It’s Mother Gargle, not Gargoyle.

For me, there’s usually only two or three shows that I would like to watch at all, and inevitably they’re all on at the same time, or in the middle of the night, so the DVR proves worth while for me.

The best thing about a DVR? Fast forward.

As a cord cutter with a TV antenna, I dislike DVR because of the monthly programming fee.

The package I have has 154 channels. That’s enough channels for me to ignore. No sense in recording anything just to not watch it twice.

Reading some of the comments here I would think that many would just get rid of their TVs since it seems that they have nothing worth watching. As for me, I have enough to keep me busy and to record on my DVR. Funny though, what used to be called the Big Three primary channels, ABC, NBC, and CBS, those are the one I usually ignore in Prime Time.

All the networks put all the good shows on at the same time. Monday and Tuesday nights, there’s nothing worth watching at all. One or two decent shows on Wednesday, then blam! Good shows on Thursday on three channels PLUS that’s the day new content hits on the streaming services! That’s when you need the DVR so you can record stuff to watch for other nights!

With the current offerings there are only 2 shows worth turning the TV on for

I have found a few times when two programs were on the same time that I wanted to watch. But, since at least one of those was on PBS, I could usually watch it at a later time on one of its sub channels.

well, ya can’t argue with his logic there. :)

Not enough storage space on most DVR’s. Esp Spectrum.

Over a hundred stations and I still watch the shows from 20 to 50 yrs ago. Television was the thing back then, today the majority are more worried about watching bullshit on their phone. I can not see what is entertaining about a fat senior woman trying to dance like her granddaughter. or 47 pictures of the same selfie. This same era has a .02 percent common sense. Think of this, back then real life spouse could not sleep in the same bed on television. Jeannie could not show her belly button ( too provacative).

Uncle Ted is in his groove.

Voice of reason and wisdom that Uncle of his…

TV is overrated.

I have to say, for broadcast TV, is has been a long time before I was faced with that particular entertainment dilemma.

Although it still has its problems, just recently my Provider, Comcast, added a lot of Streaming Apps that are included in the cost. Its a great way to see a lot of older, better stuff…

After we’re in bed our DVR records some of the late night comics’ monologues for our viewing later (if we’re bored).

When I had cable it was either nothing on that I wanted to watch or six things on at the same time that I wanted to watch.

I sympathize with Uncle Ted. Our TV provider claims we have hundreds of channels to watch, but when I search, which can take more than 5 minutes, I realize there are hundreds of channels, but nothing worth watching.

As Springsteen sang, ♪♫ “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On)”. ♫♪ And here’s the current update on Google: “In 2017, there were 1,761 commercial television stations on the air in the United States.” My wife and I are still challenged to find something we feel like watching, and we usually go for a walk instead.

DVRs aren’t for everyone and, except for live sports, most of shows I watch are on-demand.

The networks put their best shows up against the other network’s best shows. That’s why a lot of good shows never made it to a second season.

If there are two shows I want to watch, they are always on at the same time. I love my DVR.

Years ago I worked and slept odd hours. I had 3 TV’s and 3 vcr’s. I set each one up to record something different ,then i could watch what i wanted when i wanted!!

The sad part is that you can’t do a reboot of Be Kind, Rewind! LOL!

There are plenty of good shows that air at the same time.