jlb's home again
I was only gone for three days (in Virginia) and there's already about 20
programs to watch on my Tivo.
I got Tivo because I thought it would simplify my life. No more forgetting
to set the VCR. No more wondering what's on the dozen VHS tapes laying
around the TV stand. No more missing shows when I forget when they're on
"live."
(For anyone who doesn't know what a Tivo is, it's a Digital Video
Recorder. In other words, it's a big hard drive that records TV kind of
like a VCR, but it goes far beyond that with features -- including guides
to what's on now and what's coming up for the next two weeks, pause and
rewind live TV, and simplified recording set up. Go look at
href="http://www.tivo.com">Tivo.com for more info.)
Instead, I've created a monster.
In just over a week, I configured 20 "Season Passes." A season pass in the
Tivo world tells the unit to record every instance of a particular show,
with a variety options. Coming home from the long weekend, there's more to
watch than there is time. In order to record everything on time, the Tivo
will delete older shows. In my case, it deletes many shows within three
days.
So, now I have to watch about 10 hours of TV in order to clear the backlog
on the Tivo. Of course, since it's the summer, many of these shows are
repeats... then again, many of them (The Simpsons, NewsRadio, ST: DS9,
Frontier House, Hometime, and so on) are now syndicated so they should be
on again and again in the future.
Regardless, I would like to see the episode of The Simpsons where Mr.
Burns recruits an all-star team of professional baseball players for the
company softball team.
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