Tivo Makes You Soft My Defenses are Down details the problem all Tivo watchers face: you lose your acquired tolerance and immunity to commercials, bad re-runs and channel flipping. "...a steady diet of TiVo -- which carries with it the expectation that all television is television I want to watch, when I want to watch it, how I want to watch it -- has made me soft and unsheltered."
I'm going to be moving home soon, and bringing my Tivo with me. Even though I have lots of gadgets, I know it's that silver Sony Tivo that's going to be like the discovery of fire in the house. I just hope the Tivo won't have a nervous breakdown when 4 people, instead of 1, start making requests of it. Worse yet, how the hell am I going to get all those preferences out of it when I move? I may have to leave my Tivo, and get a new one (don't tell it I said that.)
