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Clones Are Overwhelming TiVo
jfruhlinger writes "The first line from this CRN/Associated Press story says it all: 'Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo. But she really doesn't.' As cable companies offer their own DVR boxes to customers for no upfront cost and a lower monthly fee than the original, people are using TiVo as a verb but are frequently not using using the product or service itself in real life. The article notes that the cable company's DVRs don't have some of the archtypical TiVo features, such as the ability to guess what you'd like recorded based on your viewing habits."
All my clones own Tivos. That's seven subscribers when before, it'd only be one.
I do love my Tivo, but I turned off the personal viewing feature long ago when I realized it had a twisted personality. It kept recording porn and cartoons...
reaching for the Kleenex,.....err tissues. There's nothing worse than when someone takes your idea and Xerox.... err copies it.
Similar to saying "I had a burger and coke for lunch," when you really had a burger and Pepsi. TiVo is becomming part of American culture.
Yeah, It's kind of like when you say, "I just took a shit and wiped my ass with kleenex." In reality, you didn't actually take the shit anywhere.
There really generic bandages, but I call em that, Oh, and I have a "Swiss-army" knife. Who the Hell Cares?? My aunt has AOL, ask her, she has the "internet at home"
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
Clowns Are Overwhelming TiVo? That really freaked me out for a minute.
-EB
Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
You'd still have a hard time determining the difference between a rerun and a flashback-heavy "new" episode.
My wife used to work for Intel and they sent her and a bunch of cow-orkers to a class on trademarks. She told me about how you're not supposed to refer to "a Pentium", but it's called "a Pentium processor" or some such because the trademark was not to be used as a noun. Since then I try hard to use my best, trademark-correct language for humor's sake, as in "Could you please hand me a Kleenex(TM)-brand facial tissue?" or "Curse these blasted Band-Aid® brand adhesive bandages that never stick for more than an hour!" It's interesting (and difficult) to try and figure out what these kinds of products are actually called other than Kleenex, Aspirin, Band-Aid, etc.
Use Ctrl-C instead of ESC in Vim!
Begun this clone war has....
Can I get an eye poke?
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ever get the feeling you keep having to repeat yourself ?
I always find it awkward telling people I have PVR. Usually it goes like this:
Them: "What do you think of Tivo?"
Me: "Tivo's are great, I love mine"
Me: "Well, actually I don't have an actual tivo, I built my own, its called SageTV, its pretty much the same as a real Tivo, but I can access my TV from any computer in the house, save stuff on DVD, no monthly fee, etc..."
Them: "you built a Tivo?"
Me: "Uh, well its a thing for your computer"
Them: "Oh..." (blank stare)
Me: "Tivo's kick ass!"
Them: =)
I prefer quality, but I also like things smaller and cuter. That's why I went out and bought a MiniTivo. It only holds 1/20th as many shows, but it does come in pink.
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I'm confused. Are you equating the coke with shit? Or do you get shitfaced at lunch?
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I had a Scientific Atlanta DVR that I got at an estate sale. I paid $10 because nobody else seemed to know what it was. It had an 80 gig hard drive it it but no smartcard.
We can't get cable here. So I yanked the 80 gid drive out of it and sold the box without drive or smartcard on eBay for $80.
Indeed, I am a very happy Scientific Atlanta DVR customer, even though I despise almost all television and only powered the thing up once to see that it worked. It got me a free 80 gig drive with a $70 cash rebate.
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