muttley hates software: Tivo, oh how I wish you were smarter

• From: Simon Wistow
  Date: 15:02 on 03 Mar 2004
  Subject: Tivo, oh how I wish you were smarter
  
  
  I love my Tivo in many, many ways. Some of them not even legal in 
  Louisiana. But sometimes it is very, very, very dumb.
  
  I tend to only watch the "10pm" programs - usually an hour long and
  placed just after the watershed for a reason. Examples of these are
  Nip/Tuck, ER, Spooks, The Agency, The Handler. Mostly drama. Mostly on
  at the same or around the same time. Not always on the same channel.
  
  Recently the new series of the Agency started up. And for whatever 
  reason the channel is doing an episode every night. At 10pm. Which means 
  I lose the series arc because other stuff is being recorded at the 
  same time.
  
  Except ... do I? Most of the other programs are on channels like Sky One 
  or E4 and those tend to repeat stuff ad nauseam at least twice a week at 
  prime time and once during the dead hours.
  
  Sure enough stuff that clashes with my 10pm showings of the Agency has
  repeat showings at 2am on a Sunday. Which is cool because, you know,
  it's a fucking Tivo and I don't care when it's recorded. But the Tivo
  just says that it will record the first showings of those other ones and
  not the second showings because, hell, I dunno. 
  
  However, with a stroke of insight, and good guess at how its internal 
  scheduling software was likely to work, I merely upped the priority of 
  The Agency and suddeny it's all dandy and the second showings are being 
  recorded and I can get everything that i want. Although I need to be 
  careful because if I'm not then I'll end up with an HD full of Agencies 
  and miss out on the rest of the stuff I want. And dman Nip/Tuck is good.
  
  But it's HATEFUL that I have to do this my self. I mean, it's not like 
  it can be an uncommon thing SO WHY ISN'T THERE SOME SORT OF AUTO RESOLVE 
  SCREEN?
  
  
  THINK! THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR USERS MIGHT DO! WHAT COMMON SCENARIOS MIGHT 
  BE!
  
  
  YOU FUCKING FUCKS.
  
  
  ....
  
  
  and breathe
  
  
  
  
  

• From: peter (Peter da Silva)
  Date: 16:20 on 03 Mar 2004
  Subject: Re: Tivo, oh how I wish you were smarter
  
  > I love my Tivo in many, many ways. Some of them not even legal in 
  > Louisiana.
  
  If you are a Pope you can declare them a religious sacrament. Hail Eris.
  
  
  

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