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Tivo, Noise and the elusive Life Balance

by Adi Rabinovich

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I want to write about two seemingly separate things today, but I am sure you’ll recognize the underlying similarity.

Lets start with Tivo. There are really two ways to enjoy prime-time shows pre-recorded for your convenience. Method One –Choose few of your favorites, tell Tivo to auto-record the season for you, and watch at your leisure. Method Two — Choose all prime-time shows (or over 80%), use dual tuner Tivo (or 2 dual-tuner Tivos) to record them (usually while watching the 3rd or the 5th prime-time show meanwhile). So then what? When on earth do you find the time to watch all these shows? Pull All Nighters, all week? Spend whole weekend watching? Do you really need to watch Everything? Is it humanly possible?

With ever increasing Amount and Quality of media, in the age that most anyone with a camera can produce quality content, I think we need to start learning that you can Not catch them all!

I think we all need to realize that the purpose of Tivo is to Liberate you from TV dependency. Gone are the days that if you don’t watch it live, you don’t watch at all. No longer do you need to choose whether to live your life on your terms or be bound by TV schedule into a strict routine.

Which one is you?

And now I want to touch on the other subject, as promised.

Your probably noticed by now that this blog ain’t engadget, or kotaku or anything like that. My goal isn’t to bring you every and all imaginable news from the world of PVRs, at the average rate of 5 stories an hour. I really doubt that many of you care that Tivo added some new TivoCast content, or that Fox partnered with Brightcove for some Web TV. And if you do care, I am sure you subscribe to several other PVR blogs and you will read it there anyway. One of my missions, is to sift through the noise out there on the Web and bring you the best and most important stories that are changing the Media landscape as we know it. Of course I am also here bring you some useful PVR DIY guides and other prudent information to make your PVR adventuring easier and richer.

So, what’s with the long post, you ask? I felt it was important to put this information about this blog out there, while also taking this opportunity to remind you to use your Tivo responsively.

Enjoy life, folks!

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Posted in Tips and Tricks, Tivo, Web TV on June 21st, 2007

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