[jyl]

Santa brought me a 80-hour TiVo!

Took about 2 hours to hook it up to the existing TV / cable system - most of that was waiting for the TiVo to dial home and program itself - and the WLAN network.

Reactions so far:
- What a great way to watch TV. It's as if all the network and cable programmers care only about me, and as soon as I get near the couch, they kick "Friends" and "Oprah" off the air and slot in auto racing, skiing, flyfishing, and whatever else I feel like watching at the moment.
- Amazing how short a 1 hour program is when you zap all the commercials. Also amazing how little I miss sitting through the 20th repeated ad for credit counseling or "rock hard abs" (the demographics of Speed Channel must be pretty pathetic).
- I can feel the beginnings of a different way of thinking about TV. Instead of a stream of instantly discarded images, it is content to be captured, saved, and maybe collected in a library. I'm not sure this is a good thing; may have to resist.
- I'm gonna need more space -- been investigating hard drive upgrades.

Anyone else use TiVo and have helpful hints, reactions, etc to share?