here's the quote from the guy on espn I was telling you about...

[yesthattom]

"I fell in love this summer. Her name is TiVo. I love the sound when you first turn TiVo on. And I love the sound it makes when you delete a program. And I LOVE the drum sound it makes when you scroll down too far on the now playing list. I love my TiVo."

Comments

Sometimes

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

I hit the wrong key over and over just to hear the tympani. I make a little rhythm with it. It's fun.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I love that I can turn the sound effects off on my TiVO. I hate all of those noises.

I love my TiVO

[quietchris.livejournal.com]

You were watching ESPN?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

No, the subject and the message is a quote from a co-worker.

I hate my TiVo

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I hate the sounds it makes. I hate the fact that the menus don't auto-wrap so you have to press up a whole buncha times. I hate that it can start a recording early, but not late. I hate the fact that it can end a recording late, but not early. (One can manually tell it when to record things, that's handy. Oh, except for that whole only-in-five-minute-increments bit there. That's not handy.) I hate that it sometimes has difficulties changing the channel properly on the Motorola digital cable box.

Stupid TiVo.

Other than that, it's okay.

Re: I hate my TiVo

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Are you serious? Duuuude, you need some prozac!

--Tom

By the way... the menus don't autowrap, but you can press CHAN-UP rather than pressing UP many times.

Re: I hate my TiVo

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Completely serious. It's a nasty little thing that is just useful enough to keep around.

And do you know how far away from the up-down control the chan-up-down control is? Talk about a stupidly arranged remote, the TiVo remote takes the cake. In my remote experience, at least. And I have a lot of remotes.

I love my TiVo!

[rampling.livejournal.com]

I think the TiVo and the Palm Pilot are the most damned successful technological aids to my life, among recent-ish electronic gadgets. They really accomplish an impressively high fraction what they set out to do.

[emmett-the-sane.livejournal.com]

Not having watched TV for a couple of years, the whole DVR thang had happened without me paying it any attention. Then I went to work for TiVo early this year, and saw what the product was. I could almost see getting cable and watching a few hours of TV every month, with that gizmo!

[arfur]

what she said.

(except that the TiVo went away. waah.)