TDS TV offers many great features and benefits compared to other providers. I’m lucky enough to be a TDS TV test user, which means I get to try out features before they make it to our customers. The first one I fell in love with was the Remote DVR (RDVR) which gives you the ability to control all aspects of your DVR from anywhere you have an Internet connection.
I can’t begin to recount all the times that I completely forgot to record my favorite shows. I happened to be in the Caribbean recently when my favorite college team, the Wisconsin Badgers, was playing in the Big Ten championship game. Due to the time difference and the lack of channels in the room, watching it live was very improbable. But, I had an Internet connection and my iPad, so I logged into my account through the TDS website and from there, was able to access my DVR. I looked up the game in the programming guide and recorded it from afar. I even added extra hours to the recording time in case the game ran long, or I wanted to watch the trophy presentations. Needless to say, I was relieved.
Being gone for a week also makes me worry about my DVR’s storage space. I tend to not watch live TV much anymore, so my DVR is fairly full at any point in time. With my previous provider, the DVR would fill up and would delete the oldest program that I had recorded. Often, this was a movie I really wanted to see but hadn’t had the time to yet. That was always frustrating because I didn’t write down my recorded shows, so I’d forget which movies were waiting for me. With the TDS TV RDVR, you can manage your recordings from anywhere and eliminate episodes of a show you’ve already seen or anything else that’s a lower priority. Thankfully, I didn’t run into any space problems while on vacation, but I took comfort knowing that I could delete reruns of The Big Bang Theory remotely and keep the new episodes in a pinch.
It’s nice to not have to worry about my DVR anymore. Getting to spend more time planning my next vacation is definitely a higher priority than cleaning up my recorded programs. I hope I can keep finding great things like this with TDS TV!
ATT Uverse and DirecTV have both had this for years – it is a nice feature