My boxy alien overlord

[rivkat]

TiVo is on sale at Amazon for $39.04 after rebate -- and you may have to wait a while for the rebate, so the deal isn't as good as it looks. But it's still pretty damned good. Our TiVo is really old, in TiVo years, and it puts green lines across the screen, and yet I still adore it. I won it from TiVo when they still gave away one every month, to whoever wrote the best argument for getting one. The month I did it, they asked how TiVo would solve a conflict in your home -- the examples were all about husbands who wanted to watch one show and wives another, etc. I said TiVo would solve the conflict that occurred when I called Z. from the office, having forgotten to set the VCR to record a show, and he gallantly complied, carefully setting the VCR to start recording five minutes before the hour and stop five minutes after the hour, because he didn't want me to miss anything -- only he picked the same hour. I cherish this memory not only because it got me a TiVo but also because it's probably the only example of Z. being confounded by technology.

Comments

[jennifus.livejournal.com]

I want a TiVo so bad. *whimpers*

[ter369.livejournal.com]

...because he didn't want me to miss anything -- only he picked the same hour.

Yeah, I remember doing that.

With my Betamax.

In 1984.

Same skill, new technology, right?

::Tivo-less::

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

The Tivo knows the time for you when you pick the program name. So skill is no longer required -- a quicker way to solve the problem of lacking skill than learning.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

The Tivo knows the time for you when you pick the program name

That's what I thought, from chatter about Tivo.

I hate to think of society losing The Old Skills, like setting clocks. So nostalgic and old-timey.

Hey, I have to reset clocks this weekend.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the TiVo's scheduling system is fairly powerful and intelligent. You can set things to record in a number of ways. Season Passes will follow the show around a channel if the schedule changes, and you can tell it to only record new episodes or repeats as well. Wishlists can look for shows by actor, director, title, keyword, or category. And you can still record the 'old fashioned' way, by time and channel.

With the newer units you can put them on a home network and view photos or play music over the network, access content from Yahoo!, look at movie listings and buy tickets from Fandango, listen to music from Live365, play games from Apps.tv, transfer shows to and from a PC, etc.

I run tivolovers :-)

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I too have that TIVO! I had to travel the day it arrived and walked my partner through the set-up. He , being TV/VCR challenged, marveled at how user friendly it was. Plus, he did not have to switch tapes any more while I traveled.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

All praise to TiVo!

We ended up getting a blessed hard drive to expand its capacity, and now we have dozens of stored Sumpsons etc. for when we have the time.

[justabi.livejournal.com]

*giggle* VCRs are not technology. They are just little frustration boxes if you try to get them to R.