How to record TV in the modern age.

1. Turn on the Sky guide – scroll through miles and miles of days worth of EPG (Electronic Program Guide) to find the program/s you want.
   
   (IMPORTANT While you're there also take a note of the start and end times of all these things.)
   
   
2. Do this as many times as there are programs you want to record.
   Setting the Auto view is totally essential – but an easily and frequently overlooked step.



3. Have a little weep - it'll make you feel better.



4. Then go to your VCR or DVR and painstakingly set in all the times for those programs – remembering to add extra minutes to the beginning and end of the program - (because, despite having run TV broadcasting for decades now, the TV companies still can't manage to keep to a proper timetable -ever. No one knows why.


Be forewarned that if there's any sports event on at the time there's a very good chance it will over run and whatever you wanted to watch will run hours late or even be taken off air altogether. Even if 10 million people watch Doctor Who every week – the 12 people in the world who watch Hamster racing will get preference. Because it is sport and all sport is sacred - for some reason.)

After all that even if you've done everything perfectly correctly - and with so many steps it's easy to mess up – you'll find that whatever you record will be covered up by that bloody irritating giant blue reminder box anyway.

It was difficult enough in the days when we just had video cassette recorders – and then you could watch one thing and record another – bliss.

And people wonder why bit torrents are so popular?

P.S. I can't afford a Sky plus and I resent having to ay extra for one. So ner.