Mailbag.
Mailbag.
Dear Sir,
As a TiVo enthusiast, I must take issue with your 2/22 7:38am diary
entry.The beauty of TiVo lies in its ability
to manipulate the arbitrary, rigid network program schedules to make them
confirm to the user’s personal viewing habits. If Friends is on at 8 but I
don’t want to watch it until 10, I no longer risk missing the episode where
Joey tells Ross that he loves him. In the realm of live events, or even
scheduled events of historical significance, the user is the one that chooses
between live or Memorex. In the Olympics/Oscars case, this decision is made
upstream at the network level…the user has no choice but to watch the tape
delay.This is a crucial distinction, and one that bears noting.
Thank you for your time,
–Anonymous