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Sometimes I like to look back at how times have changed in the past 26 years of my life. I remember life as a little boy in primary school growing up in Penang. Things were simple then and it always felt like I had so much time to do anything I want. Days passed really slowly.
I go to school in the morning. Talk in classes, sleep through some and when recess comes I would buy some junk food and play monkey bar with friends. Then I would come home, go for tuition or piano class. The one thing I always remembered doing though. No matter what day it was and no matter what was going on that day, I was in front of the TV every weekday at 5.30PM.
Why? Because 5.30PM was cartoon time! We had cartoons like Captain Planet, Mighty Mouse and Transformers. The half hour after 5.30PM was total bliss, I even made myself sit through all the commercials because I loved how fun the Ding Dang and Tora commercials looked. The kids in there always played with the featured toy in a way that made it look so real.
All the fun didn’t end at 6PM though. From 6PM-7PM starts my very early taste of “Hong Kong TVB Drama”. The first show I followed was called “Breaking Point” and it starred Leon Lai, someone whom I thought was the most handsome actor that ever lived at the time.
Today I look at my life and so much has changed. The existence of Astro has multiplied the number of channels from the old three to some few hundred of them today but I hardly get to watch enough. I go to work in the morning and very often come back only after dinner.
So I miss all the good shows they have in the evening. By the time I come back at night I’m distracted with so many other things like going online. Everything online these days is on demand. You want to see a video, you go to YouTube and you watch it whenever you like. You don’t have to wait for 5.30PM-6.00PM to see a video of this narcoleptic dog.
So just like many people these days I’m spoilt by technology. I’m used to getting my entertainment now whenever I want it rather than work it in my schedule to watch TV at a given time. Which is also why some of us these days don’t wait to catch How I Met Your Mother on TV. We buy the DVD box sets when they come out.
Plus I find I have different things that I want to watch at different times of the day. The channel I turn on every morning before I go to work though is either BBC or CNN and when I come back at night I turn on Star Movies or HBO
I always wondered that. The computer has changed so much with technology with the internet to give us the entertainment we need but the TV, something that has been around for decades more than the computer hasn’t. Then recently I learned about Astro PVR.
Astro B.yond’s PVR allows you to automatically record any program you want while you’re away from the TV or even out for drinks with friends. Then you can come back and turn it on and watch it whenever you want. You can even record up to two different channels at the same time when you’re watching something else.
Nuffnang’s running a contest for Astro’s B.yond’s PVR where all you have to do is leave a creative comment on the Nuffnang blog here. The most creative comment as decided by the people at Astro will get to win a one year subscription of Astro B.yond PVR. Do note however that you NEED an Astro subscription first before you can get PVR. So if you want an Astro B.Yond PVR then join up. 10 Bloggers get to win 🙂
Find out more about Astro B.yond’s PVR here
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Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space