my tivo is dead. long live tivo
Aye, carumba. The TiVo died Sunday. I hadn't realized how fundamentally different my approach to television is. Just the simple ability to get up and go get an Oreo whenever as opposed to just at the planned commercials is magnificent. It lets us watch TV on our schedule rather than the at the mercy of the network clocks, and with the new baby, that's crucial to ever being able to see a complete episode of anything.
I'm a bit disappointed in the hardware, because I don't think it's old enough to have the hard drive going south, even with heavy use. I'm also disappointed that TiVo doesn't have an HDTV device (for regular cable - there is a DirecTV HDTV TiVo) since I was planning to wait until that came out to buy a new one. But I'm obviously addicted as much to the TiVo as my crackberry, so the new TiVo is in place and performing its initial indexing and will be fully online shortly. Whew.
Technology is changing our lives. In some cases even for the positive. :)