to wish we had never got the stuffing sky plus in the first place

[shoobydoowop]

It is the cause of many many quarrells in our household.

After watching the same 5 minutes of I'm a celeb last night i actually wanted to smash to box to bits.

DP uses the fact we have sky plus to go off and make phone calls/take showers and then come back and SOD everyone else, the programme gets rewound

I'd instigate a rule that he/anyone else can record a programme if they're going off to do something else but that they have to watch it on their own later. I'd ban all programme rewinding and only allow the pause function to be used for very quick bathroom breaks/grabbing drinks. Everyone should stick to these rules.

How odd

Just don't let him near the remote

Worra, I can't afford the surgery to have it removed.

In any case, the purpose of sky+ is to allow you to record everything you want to watch, so that you can skip though all the adverts. You need to remind your DH of this.

Stick everything you like on series record an accumulate hours of crap to watch. Then you can watch the recorded stuff and let the 'live' stuff record as you do. That way you get to avoid the adverts and veto the rewinding nonsense.

Remove the batteries from the remote while he's in the bathroom/on the phone. Or just take it yourself and refuse to relinquish it.

It does have it's downsides doesn't it. For me it is the constant battle with dc over whether the programme gets paused or switched off when they come to the table, for example, then they are racing each other to finish eating so they can take control of the TV (dd has often changed channel before ds can get to it so he loses the prog he paused).

Though sometimes it can be handy to get them to come and do something quickly, as you can just pause it.

Why don't you just get up and do something else while he re-plays the bit he wants to? As well as trying to change the rules, of course.

LieIns: tell your kids to hit record instead of pause, and then turn off the TV. Then neither one gets to lose the other's programme.

Hmm, yes that can work but I have to go through and delete a lot, or we end up with hundreds of recorded programmes which fill up the memory and interfere with things I want to record, and ds can't remember which particular one was which, It's not ideal.

Delete them immediately after watching them. Don't use the hard drive to store things for long periods of time (they're almost certainly just taking up space for no good reason). Just use it as short-term storage and delete everything immediately after watching. Hard drive management is the key.

And place strict limits on what the kids are allowed to record. DS1 once series recorded Phineus and Ferb, which is on all the time and quickly takes over a hard drive.

Have you explained to him that this is extremely rude behavior? Because it is! Hopefully the novelty will wear off..