The good and the bad of the digital world

We are all aware that the world is moving exclusively to the digital age. This has greatly enhanced the sports watching experience making it much more pleasurable in the process. Personally speaking, i couldn't live without my tivo/DVR. Those are essential components to any true sports fanatic. Firstly, sports was never meant to be watched with commercials. How moronic is it that there is a commercial every half inning during a baseball game. With the gift of the DVR, you can simply skip over the commercial in 3 seconds flat, unless the sale at Macy's turns you on or something. Secondly, you dont even have to be home to see any sporting event. Just set the DVR to record one or two events from that night and then watch it in half the time when you get home. This isnt anything overly new. The VHS has been around for decades, but the digital recorder and high definition 16:9 televisions have taken it to an extreme.

However there are flaws with with the digital signal and the reason i'm writing this useless blog entry tonight. Knowing that I was going out for Chinese with the folks, I set the DVR to record both the Bulls and Blackhawks game that I was gonna stay up till 4am watching in crystal clear HD (btw, this is my example of the perfect night). I get home, turn on the Blackshawks game, and what do I see? A frozen, distorted, ruined hockey game. I couldnt play it, fast forward it, or watch a single second of it. Motherfucker!! This almost never happened with VHS. The picture may suck, the sound may go in and out, but it got the job done. With the DVR, it's more like flipping a coin to see if it records the game.

So if you ever lost an important recording, or your computer went dead, or an extermal hard drive erased all of your photos from Cancun, you can blame it on the digital world. You take the good with the bad, but god knows i couldnt live without it.