On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> At 11:50 10-3-01 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >No, what we *really* need is Tivo. But we don't have a phone line
> >convenient for Tivo in the room where we'd want it set up. Maybe in a
> >different house in the future....
>
> Tivo? What's Tivo? Sounds like a brand of dog food to me, but I can't see
> what dog food has to do with a phone line... :)
Oh, it's this box that records the signal your TV gets from whatever
source (in my case, it would be cable) onto a hard drive and lets you
watch stuff later, or pause *during* a broadcast and then let you pick up
where you left off; if we had it, we could start our Tuesday night TV
viewing a half-hour later, pause when we needed to, fast-forward up to
"now" when we wanted to, and end up not more than a few minutes after the
last show we wanted to watch was over.
But it needs a phone line to get data regarding the times of the shows
you've programmed into it, and the nearest phone to where we'd want to be
using it is on the other side of a wall and across the kitchen, so it
would get really awkward. (And there's a second story above all this, so
we can't just easily run wires through the walls and up over the
ceilings.)
It's really cool, though -- all my friends who have it just love it.
Julia
