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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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 Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 10:22:49 AM
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Would this be a good place to post about a tv show? I just saw that tonight, Oct 17, at 10:00 on 20/20, John Stossil goes to Nebraska to to report on the effectiveness of farm subsidies. Sounds interesting and on the topic of food and farms.
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 10:38:53 AM
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Kris,
Thanks for the heads up. I will be out, but I will TiVo it. Thank!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
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Mavens are "information specialists", or "people we rely upon to connect us with new information."[6] They accumulate knowledge, especially about the marketplace, and know how to share it with others
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Sandra K. Licher
True Blue Farmgirl
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Sandra
Horseshoe Bend
Arkansas
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Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 2:33:56 PM
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Sounds great! What channel and time is it on? Rene...exactly what is TIVO? I've heard of it but what is it and how do you get it. You can tape? television? Is it expensive...do you subscribe or buy it? Is it a machine? Just curious...would you beleive I have a dgree in computer science but since I retired I have TOTALLY lost touch with technology! Too many years on the bleeding edge of technology I guess! LOL!
Sam in AR..... "It's a great life if you don't weaken!"
Farmgirl Sister #226
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 5:41:35 PM
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It's on a regular channel, not cable. Like NBC or CBS or ABC. 10:00
TiVo?? Sounds too complicated for me. I can't even figure out how to record on the VCR. I'm doing good to be able to turn on the computer. I actually did hook up my printer to the tower thing. |
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MagnoliaWhisper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Haysville
Kansas
USA
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Posted - Oct 17 2008 : 6:17:16 PM
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Tivo is much simplier then a VCR, I never could figure out the VCR I understand Tivo Completely.
I will warn though that other digital DVR's (Tivo is a brand name, DVR is what the item is, just like Sony would be a brand name of a VCR, it's a VCR but Sony brand. So Tivo is a brand of DVR).
Any way other DVRs are very complicated! We've had them and hated them.
TiVo is point and click and easy! Much easier then any vcr I ever had!
That being said it was not that expensive. We paid for a life time for 200 dollars. That gives us life time service. We never have to pay again. We paid that 7 years ago. They no longer offer the life time membership. However, I think it's now only like 6 dollars a month. (back then it was like 20 dollars a month or 200 for life time! lol haha).
It records TV shows for you. Really easily! No programming like a VCR at all! And you can record two shows at once!
All you do, is if you are watching live tv and want to record that show right now, just push the record button on the remote.
If you want to record something in the future that is now on live. You push the TV guide button on the remote, easily go through the TV guide till you find that show, OR just click on pick programs to record, and actually type in the name of the show. And then click on the show. Click on record, and if the show is a series and not a one time like movie, it will say, record just this episode, or season pass. If you only want that episode you push yes for just this episode, if you want it to record all the episodes for that program, choose season pass, and it will auto record it every time it comes on! Not only that, you can choose in your season pass things, if you want it to record reruns, or just first runs, every channel that show comes on, or just the one channel you chose, etc. If you can navigate this message board you can navigate tivo!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 18 2008 : 07:28:41 AM
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It was not what I expected. When I was checking to see what was coming on tv for last night, the whole show was supposed to be about the farm subsidies. But when I turned it on to watch, the farm part was at the very end with all this other political stuff.
I did learn, though, that some big huge farmer's are paid NOT to farm. Big money in not farming. There was one billionaire that got rich that way and is still collecting farm sub. money from our government. So basically, really, we as tax paying citizens, made that man a billionaire. Go figure.
So I wonder what can be done about that?
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
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Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 18 2008 : 3:30:09 PM
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Only in America.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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Jami
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jami
Ellensburg
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 19 2008 : 10:47:03 AM
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How do we stop abuse of a well-meant system overseen by government? Not sure myself. You know in New Zealand they did away with farm subsidies a few years back altogether...there were initial pains in this but their farmers are now happy about it and have adapted very well and are prosperous nonetheless.
Jami in WA
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Oct 19 2008 : 4:38:32 PM
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| I saw that, too. So why in the world is our country so screwed up?? Paying farmers to not farm and buying our food from other countries and shipping it in from weeks ago. It don't make sense to me. I guess if more people stopped buying all this foriegn food.... |
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