short way to say you recorded something off the TV

i got it

stenoed it

recorded it, clearly.

I guess "video'd it" is now old school and redundant?

chiseled it

argh i forgot that one!

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torrented it

diveoed

mimeoed it

"Had my minions watch the programme, then they acted out a summary of it at my convenience in my private theatre"

i have never ever been able to do any of these things :(

though as i don't watch tv it doesn't really matter

i mean wtf do "dvr'd it" and "pvr'd it" even mean?!

"dvr" - digital video recorder
"pvr" - uh i don't know

...what is a digital video recorder?

personal... (No idea why)

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lex, it's like a flint axe, but better.

A digital video recorder is a device that records digital video. The most common brand (in the US, anyway) is TiVo.

pvr is a bit like 'perve'. i perved hours of The Hits overnight so i can watch later and skip all the crap vids, which may well be most of them.

why don't you just youtube instead steve?

all of this sounds ridiculous

I would DVR "The Lex, the pinefox and Tuomas Show".

kids know what it is, lex, i wouldn't expect you to

this is what workers are for

youtube video isn't very good quality lex. it's like the 'radio rip' of video-watching. shame on you.

viacom's gonna fuck you up

trying to imagine the house band for "the Lex, Pinefox and Tuomas Show" is like trying to do calculus in your head

calculus was the only bit of maths i was any good at!

It's like four members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe put on a stage and asked to operate a bassoon, a grand piano, a trombone and I dunno a sequencer or something.

startrek_amoktime_kirkspockbattletheme.mp3

It's like four members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe put on a stage and asked to operate a bassoon, a grand piano, a trombone and I dunno a sequencer or something.

I don't know if this better describes The Avalanches or Basement Jaxx.

youtube is often dodgy quality, limited to what it has in it's servers and only limited to 10 minutes. Not much good if you've taped a two hour film.

It would be Tori Amos doing her Lloyd Cole cover :(

Whither Sky+ed it?

(though I still say I taped stuff, even though that hasn't been strictly true for ages)

Humaxed.

i tape stuff, just like i dial a phone

memorexed it

Saved it to my abacus.

smashed it

Just watched it when it was broadcast because there's so little worth watching on TV anyway except the educational documentaries as I was saying to Jocasta and Crispin the other evening at the whist drive down at the polo club committee rooms sponsored by the parish council and attended by the bishop

only ever taped

"time-shifted it"

"committed it to memory"

what Granny Dainger sed. i tape stuff all the time with my PVR. posters to the wall, the mouths of crying children, etc

'magnetically encoded onto steel strips'

my mum always used to say 'photocopied' it.

I RECORDED IT ON STICKY TAPE AND RUST... I RECORDED IT ON STICKY TAPE AND RUST...

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betamaxed it

disintegration looped it

I'm embarrassed to say that I find myself saying "dvr'd it" quite often.

I said "taped" back when I had a VCR. Now that I've "upgraded" to a DVD player, I can't record anything from the TV, which means I have to watch things online instead.

I say taped or recorded; the latter makes more sense as it's fairly universal regardless the medium. I have really expensive PVR I hardly ever use. I filled the disk up with crappy 6pm simpsons slots by leaving it on "record 6pm every night" for months by accident, and now I cant work out how to clear it all off. It has a shite GUI that makes no sense.

Also, Lex's "goodness me, whats a tellling-fone?" shtick is pretty tired.

chix

TOTALLY j/k

did recording stuff off tv used to be illegal or at the very least legally dodgy a la dling music, or is that just an urban legend?

haha lex managed to pull both "i don't watch tv" and "i don't know what that is" in one thread

You'll keep mookie!

PVR implies that anything else, e.g. a VCR, isn't personal. Hence incredibly stupid name.

We still say taped. We're well aware that it makes us sound like nannas so we're looking for a more contemporary option. I don't like any of these.

Hell I still say records even for CDs :/

recorded it now and forever

did recording stuff off tv used to be illegal or at the very least legally dodgy

I don't believe so, but in hearings before Congress, Jack Valenti of the MPAA did compare the VCR to the Boston Strangler.

"i missed it but i will be able to rescreen it at a later date"

taped it

tivoed it

tivo'd

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and?

"fished this bad boy out of Lake Television"

my gf made fun of me for suggesting we "rewind" a dvd :(

lol wtf is up w that

what does yr girl suggest you do w/ a dvd when you want to go back to a particular part the dvd has spun past?

"back it up"?

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/tape_dispenser.jpg

JD
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why dont u have a seat over here

(joeks but who are these people srsly)

tivo'd it

tivoed it

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You'd think more internet users would've checked the correct spelling of tivoed in the OED, yes.

you'd think more people would be gabbneb, i guess

Whacking an apostrophe in a verb is probably valid in some mentalist form of English with which I'm unfamiliar but it's certainly an awkward way of going about things.

That, and we don't have a TiVo.

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Someone needs to update their style guide:

''The spousal arguments are no longer about 'I want to watch this on TV' or 'I want to watch that,' '' he said. ''It's 'you've had this thing TiVoed for six months and you haven't watched it yet. Can we delete it now?' ''
--NYT, 4/20/03

IN nearly every quarter of New York, the digital age forges ahead. Passive-aggressive e-mail is flung back and forth, sitcoms are TiVo'd for prime time anytime, and stereo, computer and television components are patched together in an orgy of coil hitherto seen only in anaconda mating season.
--NYT, 9/14/03

TiVo has been paid perhaps the ultimate consumer compliment: it has become a verb. As in, "Did you TiVo the Oscar show? I missed it," or "I've TiVoed every episode of 'The Avengers' ever made."
--NYT, 3/18/04

''As mass channels like television increasingly grow cluttered,'' Ms. Bessant said, ''and technology increasingly allows people to choose whether or not they even see commercials, how we market our company and our product is really going to be dependent on how aggressively and effectively we use elements that can't be TiVo'd out.''
--NYT, 7/8/04

Fans will have TiVo'd it, and memories, albeit bad ones, will be made of it. We will get past it, as we must in the never-ending news cycle.
--NYT, 11/24/04

However, the company has recently stepped up efforts to police just how its trademark is used in a sentence. Using TiVo as a verb, for instance -- as in ''to TiVo'' or ''I TiVoed 'The Apprentice' last night'' -- is forbidden.
--NYT, 12/13/04

''In fairness, I think we bring some of this on ourselves,'' says Merlin Mann, the founder of the popular life-hacking site 43folders.com. ''We'd rather die than be bored for a few minutes, so we just surround ourselves with distractions. We've got 20,000 digital photos instead of 10 we treasure. We have more TV Tivo'd than we'll ever see.''
--NYT, 10/16/05

And quiet is now the consummate domestic prize in the ever-expanding exurbs, where family members rattling around in cavernous great rooms and pursuing separate amusements — their TiVo’d movies, their pinging Xboxes, their YouTube-blaring computers — are driving one another crazy."
--NYT, 5/17/07

"Replay'd it"

;)

What none of you realize is that Tivoed and Tivo'd are the same word, and all those Google hits for Tivo'd come from the lesser works of Shakespeare

(I did not include NYT blogs in that sample, just stuff that I imagine was strenuously copy-edited.)

"Murder in my heart for the judge! Darnggg...."

However, the company has recently stepped up efforts to police just how its trademark is used in a sentence. Using TiVo as a verb, for instance -- as in ''to TiVo'' or ''I TiVoed 'The Apprentice' last night'' -- is forbidden.

Is it just me or does this seem idiotic? Surely Google is happy about people using their name as a verb.

But nabisco - what about the capitalization?

Tracer, Photoshop did the same thing - attempted to prevent people from saying "I photoshopped that picture", suggested alternatives such as "I digitally manipulated that photograph using PhotoshopTM".

I can KIND of understand that though since it can have slightly negative connotation

I just hooveredTM the room...

I think Tivo wanted to avoid being the name associated with digital recording which is viewed as bad by the TV industry as it gives people the ability to skip ads.

They should have thought of that before inventing the most popular digital recorder in the world!

doesn't it have something to do with possibly losing their trademark status? cf. kleenex and xerox and iirc google being nervous about the same thing. i wonder if it's ever actually happened