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Mind Coffee: Dealing with DVR bloat is bringing me down

How many TV shows do you have sitting unwatched on your DVR? How many movies?

Don’t know about anyone else, but I have entire seasons and multi-part miniseries gathering electronic dust on my DVR, probably taking up billions of 1s and 0s.

While I eventually get around to watching all of them, it may take months before I open the first one.

photo Shawn Ryan

This past week, I watched the eight-episode miniseries for Stephen King’s “11.22.63.” It originally aired in February 2016. I didn’t record it then, but it has been sitting on my DVR for more than three months.

“I’ve got to get around to watching that,” I’d tell myself. Then the lawn would need to be mowed or the floors mopped or the laundry done and whoosh! – “11.22.63” would vanish from my mind.