It's death of prime time not commercial skipping
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Calling Out TiVo
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All I can say is that since I got my Tivo my VCR is gathering dust. Tivo completely changes the way you deal with TV. The commercial skipping feature was not even a factor in my choice of Tivo, my Panasonic VCR did a much better job of skipping commercials. It skipped commercials automatically on playback unlike my Tivo which requires me to push a button. I didn't see anything about evil VCRs causing the downfall of network television in that article.
Instead of talking about commercial skipping, a complete red herring, a much better story would have been to talk about how Tivo is the death of the "prime time" convention. That's the real story with Tivo and its siblings. However the New York Times already covered that a few months ago so I guess that would have been too tame for Dvorak.
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Instead of talking about commercial skipping, a complete red herring, a much better story would have been to talk about how Tivo is the death of the "prime time" convention. That's the real story with Tivo and its siblings. However the New York Times already covered that a few months ago so I guess that would have been too tame for Dvorak.