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Does anyone else have this Tivo problem with TV Shows?
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Posted by: bobcarn

That problem being that Tivo is just too damn good!

I don't like to watch a lot of television! I get antsy after a while. I can easily pick a day or two out of the week and veg out with my Tivo for the evening. But dammit! I just don't have enough time for all the cool things that Tivo records for me!!! My partner is about to have a fit! His Tivo is recording the first season of some stupid British series every day! And the new season is airing in the evenings! He came in to talk to me and was just speechless (thank you Tivo, I owe you one). He has more shows recording than he could ever hope to watch.

"Bobby. Please tell me we don't have any plans this weekend! I've got too many things on my Tivo and I need all weekend to watch them all. How am I going to see them all? It's recording them faster than I can watch them."

Last night I watched Final Fantasy and Mutant X. Tonight I watched Smallville, Monk, Enterprise, and Birds of Prey. I'm seriously embarassed here that I watched that much TV in one night! What am I gonna do in mid-winter and spring when the current season is still going on and the late ones start (The Shield, QAF, SFU)?

ARRRRGHHH!!!!!

Posted by: Knative

It's "worse" with a DirecTiVo (or two). At least back when I had my SA I could prioritize the conflicts to only record during the summer reruns. Now with two tuners I have very few conflicts and so twice as much to watch. And then there's the second DirecTiVo grabbing movies from HBO & Starz all week long.

I guess there are worse problems to have.

Posted by: markp99

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Yo, TiVo! Bobby's ready for some more British comedy. Send it on down...

Posted by: jradosh

Good one Mark! :p

After 5 months unemployment I had pretty much watched everything I wanted to from Now Playing. But now I'm working again, it's football season and baseball playoff season. I've fallen behind in my viewing to the point I was 5 months ago!

Having 106 hrs of record time on a DirecTiVo doesn't help. :D And my suggestions lately have been very good too. Tough life!

J

Posted by: bobcarn

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Originally posted by markp99
Yo, TiVo! Bobby's ready for some more British comedy. Send it on down...

LOL!!!

I wish what he recorded was British comedy. I can get into that sometimes. Instead, he does this Masterpiece Theater stuff. Right now, he's hooked on something called "Monarch of the Glen"

I get to hear all about what happens in every episode.... every day! :rolleyes:

Posted by: Sromkie

When I first got my TiVo, I definitly had this problem. At first I tried to watch everything that it recorded, but honestly, that was just impossible for me. I am not about to watch 50 hours of television a week.

I found that at first, TiVo wasn't doing what I initially bought it for. I had bought it so that I could not worry about getting home to watch a show on TV. What it did was stop me from going anywhere because I didn't want to get too backed up. So, in essence, it did the exact opposite of what I bought it for. Not because it wasn't working, but because I had the wrong mindset.

After a while my tastes in television started to refine, I realized that if I didn't watch something within the first couple of weeks that it was on my TiVo, that I really didn't care much about that show, if I catch it, I catch it, but no big deal if it drops off. I even stopped recording some SPs because I realized I was only watching it because I didn't have an excuse not to (because I could watch it whenever)... but that isn't a good reason to watch something.

In time, your viewing habits will change. Now, I use my TiVo the exact way I intended... If Scrubs is on, I can still go out to dinner with a friend or go see a movie... If I want to see Scrubs later, I can, but if not... no biggie :)

Posted by: Pan Chun

quote:
Originally posted by bobcarn
I wish what he recorded was British comedy. I can get into that sometimes. Instead, he does this Masterpiece Theater stuff. Right now, he's hooked on something called "Monarch of the Glen"

Dude, nothing personal, but that sounds SO GAY!

:D ;)

Posted by: bobcarn

quote:
Originally posted by Pan Chun
Dude, nothing personal, but that sounds SO GAY!

:D ;)

I think it sounds TOTALLY gay! Sometimes I think the only people that watch that stuff are old people in Britain and old gay people in the U.S.! I tend to tick him off because I always condense all of his British shows into a single plotline.... at some point in the show, some kid with a British accent says something like "Oh Mummy! I do so like being British and speaking like this, mummy!"

Posted by: Graymalkin

Count me as part of this group. There's way too much TV for me to watch! I'm recording 42-45 hours a week, which means I have to spend all weekend in front of the TV if I want to keep up.

Well, some of the new shows will fall by the wayside soon enough.

Posted by: Pan Chun

quote:
Originally posted by bobcarn
.... at some point in the show, some kid with a British accent says something like "Oh Mummy! I do so like being British and speaking like this, mummy!"

And even THAT'S crap, 'cause there's never a REAL mummy in those shows either! ;) :D

Posted by: stormsweeper

There's a lot of churn on my TiVo right now, as I have 11 eps of "Farscape" (Best quality) and 24 eps of "Lexx" (22 in High, 2 in Best) saved on there, and a slew of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" eps recorded for a friend. Hopefully I'll get my new HTPC set up sometime in the next week and I can dump all those to VCD and free up some space.

Most of what I record is movies caught by wishlist, however, so watching all of them is not necessary.

Posted by: zaknafein

I used to be like that too. I used to think I needed to watch everything I ask it to record. Well, truth is, I don't have that much time, let alone the amount of suggestions it picks up. There physically isn't enough hours in the day.

Now, I record things, and just wait until I'm in the mood to watch them. A few shows I try to watch within a day or two of airing, (mainly so I can participate in the discussions here) others scroll to the bottom until I feel like watching them, or decide there's no point in keeping them and delete them. (with 106 hours on a DTiVo, very few times have I even approached capacity)

It's a wonderful freedom, but if you don't pay attention, the need to watch every single thing recorded can consume you.

Posted by: BryanRDC

quote:
Originally posted by Graymalkin
Count me as part of this group. There's way too much TV for me to watch! I'm recording 42-45 hours a week, which means I have to spend all weekend in front of the TV if I want to keep up.

Well, some of the new shows will fall by the wayside soon enough.

Yes, I think we can get all the world and national news we need right here, in the TiVo Community Forum. With opinion, too!

Posted by: phone1

quote:
Originally posted by Graymalkin
Count me as part of this group. There's way too much TV for me to watch! I'm recording 42-45 hours a week, which means I have to spend all weekend in front of the TV if I want to keep up.

Well, some of the new shows will fall by the wayside soon enough.

This from a guy with THREE TiVos!;)

We started watching The Shield at the end of last season, now it's recording the entire season for us.

Some programs I'm just going to leave until reruns start.

Posted by: buffan

My problem is definitely those series that air daily. For example, last fall, Buffy ran two different episodes each day. I'd never seen seasons 1-3, so I was watching 11 hrs of Buffy/week (including new episodes).

Now my problem is "Lois and Clark" and "Deep Space Nine" are on every day (including weekends for DS9). Plus football and NASCAR and the regular series??? That's just WAY too much TV. Good thing I don't need much sleep, but my wife does!

I watch a lot more TV now than I did pre-Tivo. And I watch more Tivo now since I ditched the SA Tivo and got Directivo. But it's much better TV. No more late night channel-surfing.