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Just in time for Super Bowl, we finally upgraded our television to be a Flat-Screen HDTV.
Good times. At the same time, I allowed our local cable company to talk me into their new DVR with all kinds of promised new features. What they didn't tell me (and I didn't think about it) is that my old DVR box had precious saved recorded TV shows.
I realized this when the cable guy was long gone, and I couldn't find my recorded shows. I'll skip past the melodramatics that ensued...the frantics calls to get my cable box back. Not gonna happen.
That meant, I had to set up all of my shows, that I don't want to miss, all over again. (Downton Abbey, come back soon, please.)
I found the America's Test Kitchen show in HD,…
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