So what if it's on late.
I'm more than happy not to have TiVo, or the Israeli equivalent of it (whatever
that may be). We may knock immediacy, but it still does have its advantages. In
an explanation of what TiVo is, the TiVo
web site tells us:
Your TiVoŽ box, powered by the amazing TiVoŽ service, automatically finds and digitally records all of your favorite shows, every time they're on. Every episode of your favorite series. Every Coppola movie. Every home improvement program. Even Dora cartoons! Whatever you choose. All while you're out living life. Plus, only TiVo lets you watch your favorite shows any time, anywhere.
I can't be the only person who finds this both incongruous and even threatening.
All of these things will be recorded for me while I'm out living life.
In other words, I don't have to interrupt my life to record television programs
I'd like to see. But if I actually want to see them ... well, by the time I actually
sit myself down to watch I'll have recorded so many items I'll have to stop my
life almost completely. That being the case, though I find it hard to understand
why Israeli television chose midnight as the proper time to broadcast the Simpsons
(and it's incredibly easy for me to get sucked in for the twenty minutes of the
program even though I tell myself that I won't), I don't tape the broadcasts in order to
watch them at a more logical time. A "more logical time" simply doesn't
exist. Any time I would sit myself down to watch would be a time when I had something
else to do. There are still only 24 hours in a day.
Go to: Not by the web alone, or
Go to: An unavoidable, and constant, change of focus,
or
Go to: Now. Right now!