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Women Control the DVR
JeiFuRi writes "While men normally hog the remote, a new study commissioned by Lifetime suggests that women are more likely to be in charge of their DVRs . Results from a survey of 1000 married woman say that 48 percent made the decision to purchase a DVR on their own and 55 percent claimed they understood the system more than their husband. Three-quarters of the women surveyed said that the reason they fell in love with DVR is that they are extremely intuitive and much easier than a VCR." The study also found some interesting things about DVR users' ad-watching habits.
I could of told you this without any 'fancy' study..
:(
Yeah.. my Tivo is filled with my wife's crap...
She has to rewind every single time she misses the most miniscule piece of irrelevent dialog. Can't we just watch the show thru one time first?
Wake up.
Due to a strange mis-wiring in thier brains, women are only able to watch one television show at a time.
A shocking handicap, I know, but true.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Last time I checked, Lifetime also conducts studies in order to improve the veracity of their television shows. According to their studies, 90% of married women are beaten by their husbands and 10% of those women kill/brutally maim their husbands and/or steal the children and run away.
Hmmmm.
Why does Lifetime care anyways? All their shows are the same so nobody really bothers recording them.
Yeah, between the PBS sewing shows, hospital dramas, and all 42 variants of CSI... I'd say my wife pretty much controls our Tivo.
Then this spring I bought a second one for the spare room, but now my daughter has managed to fill that one with her stuff! I can't win...
#DeleteChrome
...I used my last mod point not more than 2 minutes ago and the Flamebait-potential of this story is astronomical. ;)
I'll have my fun yet!
This sig rocks the casbah.
Damn, two weeks spent trying to set up MythTV and all I had to do was ask my mom.
My wife has like 4 or 5 directivos, 3 dish500s, a motorola DCT-5200 digital cable pvrs, and a few standalone tivos hooked up to 4dtv satellite recievers. Not to mention the DVB-S card in our home server. She even wrote special software, so they would all coordinate with each other, and not try to record something another DVR was already recording. With a terabyte fibre channel backend. It's kinda scary. She's even thinking of doing an episode guide database ala imdb, just so she can have better descriptions in the slice info.
Oh wait, that's me. She can't turn the tv off with the universal remote.
Now, what features do their husbands have that these women DON'T understand how to interface with?
John
Men can't think straight when they have hard-ons
Are you trying to say that man are sexually excited by DVRs? You hang out with some weird men.
Are you saying a PVR can replace a wife? That's just ridic-- I mean, it's...uh...
Hmmmm.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
> "55 percent claimed they understood the system > more than their husband." I understand my current DVR (DirecTivo) at least as well as I understand my husband, but the previous system I maintained (MythTV) turned out to be almost as bewildering to me as women are to some Slashdotters. Ellen
Yay, fun gender-bashing time! Men are controlled entirely by sexual urges! Women are emotionally unbalanced and can't think logically! Men are violent, dangerous brutes! Women are weak, timid sheep! Men never ask for directions! Women can't drive!
Don't miss next week's episode of Idiotic Generalizations: Liberals vs. Conservatives!
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LOL. Ask you average man how to extract the video data off the hard drive...
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
When hunting you have some target.
I get up before dawn, put on Woodland pajamas, douse the living room in consumer urine, power on the telly and sit for hours, silent and motionless behind the couch, waiting to spot that elusive creature: the ten-point news program.
My weapon of choice? A Sony Universal with rechargeable AA Ni-MH rounds at 1.5V.
And an eight-inch call that goes "market share! market share!"
you can have my violent video games when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Prime UID Club
"You hang out with some weird men."
Or some sexy DVRs
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I could not believe my ears when I was at Fry's one day and my wife asked me about TiVo and why we didn't have one.
So I asked her to repeat herself and she did. She then wondered if I had ever heard of one and I replied that I certainly did know what one was - but with the lifetime service and the cost of the unit, it would be nearly $500 when we were done with it.
She seemed disappointed. I was again in shock. Why the hell was she interested in a piece of "geek gear"? The answer was: Oprah talked about it one day and said how neat it was.
I then replied "Did Oprah talk about how cool those new 2.5GHz Powermacs are? The ones with the new huge cinema displays?
All that got me was a dirty look. Still, by the end of the month we had a new TiVo. And TiVo - it's TV HER way.
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
>> I'd think men want anything that has sex in them,,,
I resent that.
I want violence too.
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
nowhere in here does it mention how I can get a date?
Whoa there, cowboy. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. First you'll need a shower, then we can work on that habit of saying "nyrrrrrr" between phrases. Then another shower just to be on the safe side. Then you get to decide which of Excelsior, Enterprise, and Exeter gets disconnected from the network so we can move it to a closet.
you can have my violent video games when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Prime UID Club
You realise it's going to cost a fortune in surgery to sort your relationship out? :-)
No.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Now that I know this, I would like a lot more commercials about:
- Feminine products that reduce the frequency of menstraul cycles
- Public service announcements regarding the importance of the low oil pressure indicator light
- The How-To's of toilet use: Look at toilet before use. If the seat is up, lower it, without comment.
- Getting what you want by actually saying what you want
- Weight Loss Success with the Microwaveable Frozen Food diet
- Beer: The new Slim Fast
- Top 10 Health Benefits of Breast Implants
- New Cure for Erictile Dysfunction: The Silent Treatment
I mean, since I'm fast forwarding through these things anyway, might as well give relevant information to the people actually watching the commercials.
paintball
I was wondering if "Lifetime" was the same as the Lifetime TV channel. If you want your ego/libido/esteem to take a hit and you are male, watch this channel for a solid day.
They should change their name to "The Man Bashing Channel" or maybe "Dead-Beat-Dad TV".
I'm sure the women is only in control of the functions the man has showed them how to use(several times)....
Look honey....it just won't record "Not without my daughter part 6: Afganistan" because the title is too long.....honest....
55 percent claimed they understood the system more than their husband.
And I'm sure we can take them at their word.
One vagina for the rest of my life? I don't think so! it's worked for you this long, I don't see a problem!
Ed, Edd and Eddy.