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A weekend with TiVo

Well this has been another wasted weekend. I’ve spent the majority of it catching up on all the television shows my TiVo has recorded. Some people now are two TiVo homes, putting one in their bedroom. In my mind TiVo was a solution to a problem: getting control over when I watched TV and the ability to skip commercials. Now it seems more the other way around… TiVo has control of me. I recently read an article in the newspaper about this very thing.

You wind up watching more TV. I know I do. Before TiVo, I never would have watched nearly an entire season of American Idol or 24… I never would have discovered Airline or DogThe Bounty Hunter. My weekends would probably be a little more full of blog entries than they are now.

Right now, I’ve got tens of hours of shows and movies recorded that I want to see… some dating back to the beginning of January. None of which I’ve had time to watch yet. Sure, I keep up with the TV shows that people are talking about, but the movies and other TV shows I record… they get put on the back burner. I even upgraded my TiVo so I had more hard drive space to record more TV.

But would I trade my TiVo in? No way. I love my TiVo. In fact, surveys have shown most TiVo owners use the word “love” to describe the way they feel about their little TV time machines.

When I was kid, my parents would read me a bedtime story until I fell asleep… now, TiVo “reads” me to sleep. I fall asleep watching shows recorded on TiVo more often than I do going to bed first.

What’s the obsession? I’m not sure. Who’s got control? I’m guessing the TiVo does, because I always feel like I have to watch everything I’ve told TiVo to record.

You should see the stack of DVD’s I’ve bought and never watched… The poor DVD player is slowing going ot waste by neglect.

I wonder what life would be like without the idiot box…….

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