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    Posted: 21 Feb 2012 at 7:54pm
Anyone else deal with this issue?  My S/O records tons of stuff and then doesn't delete it after she watches it.  Right now our DVR is 91% full.  I constantly tell her to watch the shows and clear them out afterwards but she is really slow in doing it.  We have different schedules so for most of the week we watch TV the other one isn't home.  So I set something to record which makes the DVR delete something she recorded and never watched, then later she complains about it.  Holy sh*t!!!!  Don't record things you aren't going to watch and then this won't happen.

End rant...am I the only one dealing with this?
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Originally posted by Pervis Pervis wrote:

Anyone else deal with this issue?  My S/O records tons of stuff and then doesn't delete it after she watches it.  Right now our DVR is 91% full.  I constantly tell her to watch the shows and clear them out afterwards but she is really slow in doing it.  We have different schedules so for most of the week we watch TV the other one isn't home.  So I set something to record which makes the DVR delete something she recorded and never watched, then later she complains about it.  Holy sh*t!!!!  Don't record things you aren't going to watch and then this won't happen.

End rant...am I the only one dealing with this?
 
I can think of a few options for you:
 
1. Give s/o a second DVR for next birthday, anniversary, or Christmas.
2. Face s/o, look her/him in the eye, and calmly and clearly say something like, oh, let's see..."Holy sh*t!!!!  Don't record things you aren't going to watch and then this won't happen."
3. Act like a couple of adults and calmly discuss a few ground rules for sharing DVR capacity. Write them down and make several copies. Review them periodically.
4. Say nothing, and slowly turn into the husband in the Yoplait "Well, yehnsterday..." ad.
 
To answer your question...No, your not the only one dealing with this. I live with two "video hoarders."
 
My son records every NY Giants game, Utah Jazz basketball game, and Penn State football and basketball games. As I write this, I'm looking across the room at two shelving units that contain at least 1,200 DVDs of sporting events going back six or seven years.
 
Now, I can see some value in recording sporting events as they are fun and interesting to re-watch, especially during the off season. But my wife...she DVDs political talks shows, presidential debates, primary election returns coverage, and news coverage of natural disasters. And she keeps them all. I even got her a pack of rewriteable DVDs so she could record over them. I don't think she's even broken the shrink wrap on that one yet because she wants to keep everything.
 
I could have gotten DVRs for almost no cost through DirecTV promos over the past several years, but with these two, I know we'd have the same problem..."I want to record something but I can't erase what's on the DVR!!!! Wahhhhh!!!"
 
More on point of your question, one of my buddies at work has his 91-year-old mother living with his family. She's constantly setting the DVR (credit to her for even knowing how to work the remote) and overwriting something my buddy recorded and hasn't watched.
 
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Originally posted by ThreadKiller ThreadKiller wrote:

 
To answer your question...No, your not the only one dealing with this. I live with two "video hoarders."
 
 
Yeah..."hoarders" come in all varieties, not just the ones you see on TV.  I've kept all my emails  since I got this computer.  I've probably got 10,000 in my inbox and folders.  Even my delete file has 4,000 emails (spam and newspaper notifications and bills), many of which I never even opened.  At this point, I don't even wanna spend the time deleting this stuff to my "trash bin".  But it doesn't interfere in my life, so why bother?  I barely even notice it all. 
 
But this is the same mentality as those people on "Hoarders", 'cept my version won't get my house condemned.
 
 
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Get her a 1TB hard drive, and introduce her to Torrents, and Addic7ed.com
 
Problem solved :D
 
I've been grabbing all kinds of shows recently, because there's never anything good on American television, and what is good in Britain tends to not be released across the pond, or they do it drip by drip year by year. My mum loves Japanese and Taiwanese dramas, so we watch those with fan-made subtitles since most of them will never be officially released with them, and I've recently been looking for a website that actually has some European or Western Asian subtitled shows on them.
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Problem not solved.  She's some kind of DVR addict.  She will record episodes of shows which she has already seen and then never get around to rewatch them.  She's even recorded Anime shows which she has on DVD.  At this point most of what I watch is streaming off Netflix, downloaded stuff I put on a USB drive and plug into my Xbox, or through OnDemand.
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My girlfriend fills the DVR with reality shows.  Drives me nuts, especially since they are always dragged out to TWO EXCESSIVELY LONG HOURS.  

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My mother records a certain televangelist from Asheville, NC whose name I hesitate to mention; at times, she's had 2 or 3 of his messages on there for a good long while.
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