Comments on: Mediaweek Begins DVR Analysis Series

By: hdtivo

hdtivo — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:13:27 +0000

I have personally contributed to the 13%, having had a SA DVR for many months which I “never” used. In fact I still have it; I just no longer pay the DVR fee and the box operates as a mere cable box for a Series2 (thatÂ´s a TiVo )

By: ADIDAIllini

ADIDAIllini — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:58:06 +0000

We upgraded my in-laws Time Warner cable to the DVR package a couple of years ago for Christmas. My father in law loves it because he typically works late so he can still catch his shows. My mother in law, however, seems to be overwhelmed by it all. If there is something she wants to see but won’t be around for, she’ll take the time to set up a recording ala a VCR. Otherwise she’s just as happy watching live TV.

By: MegaZone

MegaZone — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:54:27 +0000

So go hook it up for her when she’s not home.

By: Gryphon

Gryphon — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:49:37 +0000

I gave my first TiVo to my mother when I bought the bigger-disk unit I have now, complete with the original box, all the docs and cables, the whole shmeer. That was something like three years ago. She’s never even hooked it up. I’ve told her about 40 times that wiring it is no more complicated than connecting a VCR, but she has some kind of mental block about it; she just won’t do it. This is a woman who works with technology for a living, you understand. She’s involved with the training program teaching the public-school teachers of Maine how to use the laptop computers, wall projectors, video recording equipment, and so forth that the state has lavished on the school systems for the last six or seven years. She’s not your stereotypical “baffled by the microwave oven” American woman in her fifties. I don’t get it, but there it is.