Finally, I convinced the wife to buck up and take advantage of our cable provider’s offer of a Digital Video Recorder (DVR) instead of just our standard cable box on the main TV in the house.
We took delivery of the item on Friday afternoon and I installed it shortly after waking up Saturday. Needless to say, I am quite enamored with this wonderful piece of technology.
I don’t watch a whole lot of TV, maybe five hours a week, and two-thirds of that is recorded stuff that is broadcast while I’m at work. Tiring of the nearly endless stacks of VHS tapes was one of the straws that pushed the wife to get the DVR.
Along with the DVR came a whole slew of new channels, most of which I will never watch (Logo, The Women’s Entertainment Network, The Black Family Channel, etc.). But it also came with The Military Channel, History Channel International and one that I have actually been waiting for, The Biography Channel.
The Biography Channel is one of my favorites because they took over the “Arts” portion of A&E, who used to show the Granada Production Company’s “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” episodes. Back when A&E actually had decent programming, I used to record this show semi-religiously. Sadly, many of these tapes were lost in the “Great Storage Unit Deluge” and I was stuck with just a half a dozen unreleased episodes.
But no longer!
We can record up to 70 hours of shows before we have to start erasing shows, and with the purchase of a recording DVD player in the future, I should be able to increase my Holmes collection fivefold.
Does anyone else out there watch this show? Or, as the wife likes to imply, am I a freak?
I have never seen that show, but as to having a DVR, it is a god send. I do not watch alot of stuff either, but now I can watch more TV in less time, cutting more than a quarter of the time off due to ads. And I never have to worry about tow shows being on at the same time and missing them both from switching back and forth. And, as with all things I like, I like to watch, see, and use thenm again, it would be very nice to have a recordable DVD to save the really good stuff. Let me know how that works out.
I will now add Sherlock to the list to see if it is any good.
The wife and I both love it — we went out and bought the DVDs for the whole series and we’re working our way through them. We haven’t watched any since the beginning of the summer though — they seem best viewed while seated before a cozy fire on a cold rainy night.
I am wondering how long it’s gonna take before somebody makes a DAR for your car radio. The reason is that the DVR has two functions I would love to have in my car — the ability to pause a program in progress, and more importantly the wonderful “15-seconds-back” feature. It’s great when you miss a word or two or just want to see something again — instant replay, in other words.
Anyway, if somebody made one, I’d swap out all our car stereos in a heartbeat.
Jeremy Brett kicks ass!
The very first time I saw him as Sherlock Holmes I damn near fell over, he’s just how I’d always pictured Holmes when reading the books as a kid.
Christopher, you will not be disappointed with teh shows. Jeremy Brett, as Erik states, does kick ass.
David, just how many episodes have you purchased? As of this weekend, I was still only able to find 22 of the 41 episodes on DVD. Am I missing something or someones publishing of them?
I concur with Eric and Phil, Jeremy Brett was far and away the best “Holmes” I’ve ever seen.
Even better though was the portrayal of Dr. Watson. He was finally shown as a smart, capable man of stout heart. (Remember, Holmes never suffered fools gladly. Ya’ think he’d want one for a roommate?)
I hate the usual portrayal of Dr. Watson as a bumbling fool. This is commonly done because Nigel Bruce (check the Wiki) who played opposite Basil Rathbone specialized in bumbling fools. Also, this allowed Holmes to look smarter by contrast.
All in all, this is the best “Holmes” series ever IMO.