There's a lot of cool stuff on cable tv for any interest. Hmm - maybe
I'll get Tivo for my satellite syste,.

"Juan Antonio" > wrote in message om>...
> I've coveted Tivo for years because I thought I could live without it. Now
> that I have it, I LOVE my Tivo. (I also have DirecTV, which is also very
> cool.)
>
> If you have a particular show that you watch, you can program it to tape the
> whole season, so you don't have to keep setting the VCR every week. Also,
> you can set it to record all episodes, or just the first runs.
>
> I have mine set to watch for key words like "diabetes" and it finds shows
> that are about diabetes and records them. So far it's found a couple of
> shows that were interesting which I never would have known about to watch
> otherwise.
>
> So back to your original dilemma, Tivo will help you find things you really
> want to watch so maybe you'll have a better chance of staying interested and
> staying awake.
>
> BTW, it's all menu driven and easy to set up and use. I'm hoping my mom
> will get one to help her record shows, which she probably wouldn't take the
> time to do on a VCR because it's so tedious. With the Tivo, she could
> actually enjoy TV when she wants to.
>
> (That's another thing, you don't have to wait for it to stop recording
> before you watch that recording. So, for example, if you are wanting to
> watch a particular show, but want to fast forward through the commercials,
> wait until it has recorded about 15-30 minutes and then you can fast forward
> through the commercials.)
>
> In case this hasn't been discussed, it also allows you to pause and rewind
> live TV that you are watching. So, if you missed the last phrase someone
> said, and you want to know what it was, you can go back and pick it up.
>
> I knjow this is WAY OT, but I hope it's helpful.
>
> --
> Antonio in Los Angeles
> Age 37, Type 1 for 10 years
> Paradigm 512
> "Siobhan Perricone" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > 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?"
> > - www.theonion.com