Wednesday, November 16, 2005
e-mail i sent to trosama min asi
speaking of trose, check out his blog at sufficeittosay.blogspot.com
Funny how TiVO can kill something as enjoyable as "Hey, did you see that commercial for--"
"No."
"Oh yeah. You and your precious TiVO."
| to: trose from: jimmy |
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| http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_en_tv/tv_dvr_usage No, people aren't watching more TV, they're watching more TV shows. There's a difference. I can watch a TV show on DVD like The Shield, but i've never watched The Shield on TV. Huge difference. Main contentions on TiVO or Replay or whatever shitty DVR is the flavor of the day: 1) 92% of people skipping commericals loses a lot of pop culture. Where would things like "where's the beef" be w/unfettered tivo? 2) easy recording of shows allows for more people to bitch at you when you wanna talk about shows the next day. "no! I have it tivo'ed and i'm gonna watch it friday! don't tell me what happens!" and while this happened for the past 20 years with VCRs, people were too stupid to know how to program them. and those who did know how to program them knew enough to STFU when it came to everybody else who just took the time to watch the show. tio jaime |
Funny how TiVO can kill something as enjoyable as "Hey, did you see that commercial for--"
"No."
"Oh yeah. You and your precious TiVO."
