Tivo
Happy birthday to me! For my big day this year I begged for a Tivo and my pathetic whining was rewarded with a shiny new Philips model. Tivo is one of a breed of new consumer electronics known as Personal Video Recorders. With Tivo, or one of the other competing brands such as Replay, you can replace your old vcr with a feature laden computer device that will change the way you watch television. Like a vcr you can program Tivo to record the shows you’d like to watch at a later date but that’s where the similarities end. With a PVR you can pause and rewind live TV, search two weeks of tv listings complete with episode descriptions and set up a season pass that will record every episode of your favorite series even if the networks move it around the schedule like a hot potato. Tivo will even suggest and record programs it thinks you’ll like. I don’t want to start sounding like a Tivo press release, I have no connection to the company other than that of consumer, but thanks to Tivo I no longer have to worry about keeping up with BBC America’s constantly changing schedule, I can quickly search it days in advance and have it record individual episodes or complete series of both my favorite programs as well as new shows I might have otherwise missed. I won’t even mention how easy it’s become to manage my kid’s Pokemon, Sailor Moon and Tenchi Muyo addictions…
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