Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much

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Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much

The Morning News offers up a very amusing Q&A: Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much.

It almost reads like parody of me among my friends and their questions.

by Matt Haughey February 10, 2005 in News

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Frankly I find that TiVo does a terrible job of reccomending programs to me. Most of the time the list just fills with things that I've already ranked (one of the first things I did upon getting it was to go through tons and tons of listings and rank stuff though) often movies or stuff I already have a season pass to. The rest of the time it picks out terrible choices. It seems to keep thinking that I really want to watch bad tv movies on Lifetime and Hallmark. To date it has never, ever picked out something new that I did not know about already and offer to record it for me.

Picking up movies I already know I like is one thing, but I'd really rather it picked only unranked stuff so I was actually getting suggestions, not just things I may not have chosen to record. Druids indeed.

Posted by: Mark at Feb 10, 2005 5:18:58 PM

I'm one of those early adopter folks that bought a PVR in 1999, the first year they were out. It was difficult at that time trying to decide between TiVo and ReplayTV. One of the things that swayed me to Replay was the ability to configure it to look for stuff I know I like by keyword. (Yes, I know TiVo has this now, but it didn't in 1999). I've never regretted my decision, especially after hearing all the weird stories about things that people's TiVos decide to record for them. I'd rather have to take the time to tell it what I like, than to have it haphazardly guess.

Posted by: Tim Farley at Feb 10, 2005 6:27:45 PM

I'm a 1999 Tivo adopter, and I turned off the Recommended Shows feature probably three days after I got it and have never used it since (I now own 2 DTivo's and the original 14 hr stand alone -since upgraded- is still in heavy use). There's so much stuff on that I -know- I want to watch as it is, and I'm enough of a TV-holic to know when something is going to be on that interests me, beyond what is covered by my copious season pass list.

Posted by: Bruce at Feb 11, 2005 10:48:35 AM

Tivo suggestions are great! The size of the folder is an easy way to monitor the amount of disk space I still have available.

Posted by: Ray Tudor at Feb 11, 2005 3:41:41 PM

Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much

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