All right. I admit it. I’m a Tivo junkie. We have the DirecTV package that offers everything – movie channels, sports, the works. We have three Tivos recording around the clock: News shows, documentaries, series and movies.
When properly set up, Tivo allows you to record two channels at once which gives us the capacity to record six shows at any given time and, collectively, we can store about 200 hours of programming on the three machines. So the odds are we will never, ever catch up on all the shows recorded on those hard drives.
TV networks act like Tivo doesn’t exist, refusing to acknowledge that most of us own and use Tivos so we can watch what we want at our leisure and skip through the ads. This, of course, bothers those who buy the ads so they are working on ways to use keep the ads in front of us even when try and use technology to avoid them.
Let the games begin.
I have the half-sister to the Tivo, the DVR. She doesn’t do two shows at once and I still don’t see everything I record.I can fast-forward through the bloody commercials and I do it well.Saves quite a bit of time when watching the programs,upwards of 20 minutes of an hour show.
We have a lesser DirecTV package and watch mostly Court TV, A & E, Discover, Learning Channel, History, National Geographic, etc.. I can’t remember any show we watch on a commercial channel—-it’s mindless drivel..
And the only way we can even stand the good programs is by recording them and skipping over the 20 minutes of commercials in each hour..
At least they haven’t started putting ads in books—-yet..