:: Pip’s Tech Tips! : MyTVR

You might know that I love technology. I really do. I think I’m going to do a lot more stuff about useful technology and helpful ways to use the internet to make your life easier.  Does that sound good?

Today I want to tell you about a website I’ve been using called MyTVR. I like it. It’s really useful for me.  Where I live (in Fitzroy) it’s a kind of black hole in terms of phone and TV reception.  The big apartment blocks and the hospitals seem to catch all the good waves and that leaves me with hardly any.  So I need to have some tricks up my sleeve to make things work for me.  We had Foxtel for a while there, but I just didn’t think it was good value (especially since we only had it so we could get free to air reception via the cable!)

So we don’t have Foxtel.  And we have no reception in our new downstairs living room (which was the shop) which means I am using MyTVR instead.

Here’s what you do. You can get a free trial (which is what I did) and that allows you to record scheduled shows and play then back on your computer, iPad or iPhone.  I play mine back through the media player I have attached to my telly too (the Boxee Box).

I like MyTVR because I can just choose the shows I want from the usual free-to-air guide (via their website) and  it will record them for me to watch later.  Maybe that’s in the bath on my iPad. Maybe it’s on my phone. Or maybe it’s just on my PC or telly.

MyTVR is a subscription based service.  At the moment I pay $8 a month (that’s the cheapest!) and that lets me store 5 hours of recorded programs.  That seems to be quite good for me. I just choose things each day and scan the week ahead for anything interesting too.

Maybe you don’t have very good reception where you are?  Or maybe you want to watch TV in a room that doesn’t have an antenna? Or maybe you want to watch TV on your iPad or iPhone?  Then this might be good for you, too!

xx Pip

PS : Not a sponsored post. I found MyTVR via Google and paid for it myself! Merci!