On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:34:01 -0500, "Julie Bove" >
wrote:

>That's one reason why I don't like TV or movies very much. Both put me to
>sleep very quickly. I can only manage to stay awake if it is something I
>really want to watch.

This is why you need a TiVo! There's always something I want to watch
on it because I've asked mine to go out and find me things I like to watch!
Though, I will grant, I consider movie watching one of my hobbies, so I
do watch a lot of movies on TV. The great thing about TiVo is that there's
always a movie I want to see, and I don't end up wandering around the
channels on a lazy Sunday afternoon looking for something to watch when
there isn't anything that interests me.

I'm also able to compress my watching time because I can skip the
commercials easily (or hop back to see them if I want), which is faster
than just fast forwarding through them. Though most of the movies I watch
don't have commercials, we are watching, uhm, five broadcast shows.
*counts* Alias, 24, Malcolm in the Middle, ER, nope, looks like four
broadcast shows. The other series we watch is Jeremiah, but that's on
Showtime. Anyway, the great thing is we can watch these any time and the
quality is much better than on a tape.

Anyway, I guess my point is just if you had a TiVo, you'd probably be
surprised at how much stuff there is out that that's actually interesting.
I get lots of interesting documentaries that I never had time to search for
in the listings before.

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Siobhan Perricone
"Who would have thought that a bad Austrian artist who's obsessed with the human physical ideal could assemble such a rabid political following?"
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