Sunday, September 25, 2005
A little whining
What's with tv recently, even cable reruns? Programming has been so repetitive or just plain awful that even I am challenged to find something to have on longer than while surfing. It doesn't help that I'm not a football fan or a news junky, and I've seen way more hurricane coverage than makes sense, and I've even seen most of the WE, Hallmark, AMC and Lifetime movies before, and TCM's movies have been shown over and over and over, and PBS is slipping in more of those 'watching paint dry' shows, and the home decorating shows are repeats too, and I need a break from the personal make-over hosts' insults. There are a few swell exceptions like Rome on the History channel and Foyle's War and Law & Order reruns, but they're only a few hours a week. The upshot is that I stay up until 1:30 or 2 because late night reruns are funny and endlessly rewatchable. Please tell me the new season will help.

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 9:30 AM, September 26, 2005:
Might be time to consider Tivo, and a few weeks off, so that shows you actually want to watch can accumulate. For example, our rule that auto-records anything where director=Preston Sturges has caught 3 movies that we haven't had a chance to watch yet. We've got enough built up at this point that we're probably going to run out of disk space before we watch it all and some things start dropping (preventable, by the way)....
 

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Blogger jau — at 10:53 AM, September 26, 2005:
Yeah I had a feeling someone would say that word, TiVo. And it probably IS the answer. Can you use it with "mere" cable?
 

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 10:50 PM, September 26, 2005:
Yup...when you first plug it in, and plug in the phone line, you go through a wizard where you set things like zip code, cable provider, TV type (for universal remoting, etc.) and it figures out your channel lineup (std or digital cable either is fine). Apparently there's a $150 rebate in effect if you buy now. I'd suggest minimum the 80-hr "series 2" $299 right now, but you'd get it for something like $150, or look around (BestBuy, Circuit City, etc. or direct from Tivo.com); if you want things like the DVD burner, that's fine, but they cost more. Do know that you also pay a service fee for the listings that your machine downloads and let you use to pick programs (you can browse in realtime, or you can set up rules and recurrence, etc.). That service is either $12.95/month or $299 one-time, for the lifetime of THE UNIT (not you). You'll need to decide for yourself whether that's worth it; we feel like it's been a good value...
 

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Blogger jau — at 9:25 AM, September 27, 2005:
OK, I'm going to look around. You convinced me. Yes, the service is undeniably worth it. Twenty-year-olds could have quite a deal if "lifetime" meant the person and not it, eh?! Thanks! I'll let you know what I find out.
 

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 6:33 PM, September 28, 2005:
Just tripped over this and thought of you. Apparently for 2 more days you can buy pants (other?) at JC Penney and get a free Tivo and some service. Look here.
 

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