TiVo has become totally integrated into my TV viewing. For the past month I’ve been watching an average of about 60 minutes of tele each night and, man, can i pack a lot in those 60 minutes. Typically the nightly routine is:
All of that in 60 minutes. Sweet. Not that I really have more than an hour to blow on tube at any point in time but sometimes on the weekends I have a little more time so i’ve got it recording Austin City Limits and a few other music related programs. It’s been a joy. I’ve had particularly good luck creating wishlists based on keywords and occasionally a really sweet music documentary just shows up on the TiVo (granted, so crap shows up, too).
However, I can sense the networks waking up to viewers like me. And they don’t like me. I’ve noticed that some shows start a minute or two early or late so I’ve got to tell TiVo to buffer my recordings with 5 minutes on each side. What really gets me mad though is that you can’t browse descriptions of the Charlie Rose show. Which means you either get a season pass to Charlie Rose or you’re s.o.l. Case in point, Charlie recently had Joe Trippi and a few other folks from the blogosphere on his show but damn it, since there are no descriptions of the show I can’t tell when it’s going to be re-aired. If anyone from Boston/Providence happens to stumble across when this will be on, let me know. I get three PBS stations so it’s got to be on one of them soon.
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