TiVogration

Published by jim on 2/25/2005 in events

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:

  • The previous night’s Daily Show
  • An episode of Family Guy
  • An episode of Good Eats

    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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