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The one time TiVo'ers will be watching Live TV
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Posted by: Raj

Is to count down to the new year!

:)

Posted by: Francesco

What? Did I miss it? Oh well, TiVo watched it for me.

Posted by: avaloncourt

With Tivo every day can be New Year's Day.

Posted by: zakath47

Live TV? What's that??

It's 3:15am, and I just watched Dick Clark count down ("5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Happy New Year!") to 2003 a couple of minutes ago.

:D

Posted by: stevel

Why watch it live? Just record it once and watch the same show each year. It's all the same... :D

Posted by: jamesbobo

Why watch it at all? I was asleep.

Posted by: Hunter Green

This is the ideal show to watch on TiVo the next day because you can fast forward through all the filler you don't like, to get to the few bits of filler you do like. :)

Of course on my TiVo, I gave Dick Clark a miss and got the MTV pajama party, because it triggered my Avril Lavigne wishlist. That needed fast-forwarding even more than Dick would have.

Posted by: Francesco

...Just like the Academy Awards!

Posted by: Polcamilla

FIL got out the Martinelli's and we're all standing around with our champagne flutes and a clock comes up that says, "11:55". MIL says, "It's five minutes away! Why are we all standing up?" FIL responds, "Well, it's TiVo, so I figured I could just fast-foward."

After the New Year and the kissing and the toasting and the noise-making, I pointed out that we could rewind the live broadcast and do it again. MIL smacked me.

Posted by: Francesco

HAHAHAHA! Great anecdote! :)

Posted by: grecorj

Even "Live TV" with TiVo is not actually "live", as most of you know -- there is a slight delay, both in the sat signal and the recording/reading to/from the hard drive. So when everyone else was saying "5...4...3..." we were saying "4.5....3.5...2.5..." to get that "live" feeling. :D

Posted by: Brit6

LOL hunter green, i see u like avril ? heh i met her b4 :D
and for the new years special i tivoed dick clark from 10pm-2:05am
and then tivoed the pajama party from 3am-5am :)
gotta love my tivo i just got

Posted by: WinBear

There was way too much else for TiVo to record on NYE and NYD. On New Year's Eve, there was the AbFab marathon on BBCA, TVLand's "Last Things Last" (series finales) marathon, then TNN ran the first two episodes of X-Files. On New Year's Day, there was VH1's marathon of "I Love the Eighties," TVLand's "First Things First" (series premieres) marathon and Outdoor Life Network's marathon of "No Boundaries" among other things.

Posted by: Dajad

quote:
Originally posted by satguymtl
...Just like the Academy Awards!

Nope ... I DEFINATELY record the academy awards and make darn sure I don't listen to any news broadcasts before I watch it. I usually start watching about 2 hours in. When you cut out all the commercials and boring speeches, you can pretty much catch up to the end of the broadcast just as it's happening.

I do the same with grand slam tennis & golf matches.

...Dale

P.S. I did watch Dick Clark live through my cable (ie: through my TV's other input switch) as TiVo recorded something else over midnight.

Posted by: Etienne_72772

At my New Year's Eve party, a friend's husband got called out and left two hours before the countdown to fix the heat at a dance club in town (He works for a local plumbing/heating outfit and was on-call that night). He cambe back about 15 minutes late for the countdown, so we just backed up and did it all again for his sake! God Bless Tivo...

Posted by: JSY

Speaking of not watching live-tv, I've found that TiVo hasn't really changed my live-tv viewing habits, but TiVo gave me the opportunity to tape shows easily when I wasn't around. My live-tv viewing hasn't really changed (even though I admit that it wasn't that much before anyway). I know because of TiVo, I watch TV a lot more now than I ever did before because of all the things that it records, but it really was an addition to the live-tv that I still watch. Anyone else also out there that actually still watches live-tv as frequently as I? :)

Posted by: Breacagan

quote:
Originally posted by grecorj
Even "Live TV" with TiVo is not actually "live", as most of you know -- there is a slight delay, both in the sat signal and the recording/reading to/from the hard drive. So when everyone else was saying "5...4...3..." we were saying "4.5....3.5...2.5..." to get that "live" feeling. :D

Aren't most of the network feeds taken off the satellites? Anything path through a geostationary satellite is going to add about a quarter of a second. Even a direct speed-of-light connection would add at least a perceptible delay for those who do not reside in New York City or its environs. Live is only ever live if you are there.

Speaking of which: How is the average American supposed to know if they put Dick Clark on the 8-second loop so they can censor him if necessary? Much of this country could still be watching the ball in Times Square drop a good seven seconds after it hit the bottom! If you forgot to set your Rolex, you probably wouldn't notice.

Of course, what's really a symptom of Tivoitis is watching the countdown "live" just so you can tell yourself you did, then pausing a few minutes before the big event, forgetting about the pause (champagne?), and watching the ball drop from the back end of the buffer at 12:30.

Posted by: eric_mcgovern

The best "live" TiVo event is the Olympics. We would start watching about 2 hours in. We could skip past all the "inspirational stories" and the stupid commentary about how the venue brings out the challenge, etc, and of course the commercials.

Posted by: Brad Bishop

quote:
Originally posted by stevel
Why watch it live? Just record it once and watch the same show each year. It's all the same... :D

If only that were true. Although it typically has a campy feel to it. It was pretty bad this year. The commentators on the street were pretty cheesy with them trying to pump up the crowd. We choose to watch something else until it got within a minute of midnight.

Brad

Posted by: TreborPugly

Heh...

We were spending New Year's Eve at some friends who also have Tivo. One of them said they'd scheduled to record the New Year's stuff. I noticed while we were talking in the living room that the record light was on between 10 and 11 PM, but went off at 11. Then we started playing a board game, and at 11:50 or so, we considered stopping to watch the ball drop live, but decided to be true Tivolutionaries and wait until our game was finished. I mentioned that it had stopped recording at 11, but she assured me that she'd scheduled the countdown. I figured it must be scheduled for 11:30-12:30 or something and dropped it. We finished our game around 12:40, and went to the Tivo. Sure enough, it had recorded only "Dick Clark's PRIME TIME New Year's blah blah blah..." And since it was 12:40, we didn't even have it in the buffer...

Treb.

Posted by: allan

quote:
Originally posted by JSY
Speaking of not watching live-tv, I've found that TiVo hasn't really changed my live-tv viewing habits, but TiVo gave me the opportunity to tape shows easily when I wasn't around. My live-tv viewing hasn't really changed (even though I admit that it wasn't that much before anyway). I know because of TiVo, I watch TV a lot more now than I ever did before because of all the things that it records, but it really was an addition to the live-tv that I still watch. Anyone else also out there that actually still watches live-tv as frequently as I? :)

I'm the same way. I still watch my prime-time shows live. One difference is that I take my breaks when I want to instead of when a commercial comes on. Usually I pause near 7 so I can get my meal ready, and I can FF past commercials until I catch up to real-time. Also, when there's nothing on, or the regular show is a boring rerun, I can watch a Tivo'd show.

Posted by: Cletus

quote:
Originally posted by raj2001
Is to count down to the new year!

:)

No thanks, I liked better watching it live in Times Square. :D

Posted by: Francesco

quote:
Originally posted by Dajad
Nope ... I DEFINATELY record the academy awards and make darn sure I don't listen to any news broadcasts before I watch it. I usually start watching about 2 hours in. When you cut out all the commercials and boring speeches, you can pretty much catch up to the end of the broadcast just as it's happening.

I do the same with grand slam tennis & golf matches.

...Dale

P.S. I did watch Dick Clark live through my cable (ie: through my TV's other input switch) as TiVo recorded something else over midnight.

Yep, me too. (I thought that's what I meant?)

Watched the whole 4 1/2 hours last year in about 50 minutes. Only speeches I paid attention to were Poitier's and Redford's. The rest? >>> !

Posted by: GBaz

quote:
Originally posted by byronshock
Aren't most of the network feeds taken off the satellites? Anything path through a geostationary satellite is going to add about a quarter of a second. Even a direct speed-of-light connection would add at least a perceptible delay for those who do not reside in New York City or its environs. Live is only ever live if you are there.

Speaking of which: How is the average American supposed to know if they put Dick Clark on the 8-second loop so they can censor him if necessary? Much of this country could still be watching the ball in Times Square drop a good seven seconds after it hit the bottom! If you forgot to set your Rolex, you probably wouldn't notice.

I checked the delay of the broadcast agains verizon time (on my cell phone) suprisingly the clock on their screen changed to 11:59 about ).5 secondes faster them my cell phone. wan unable to check the time against one of my clocks set of of the atomic clock in colorado.
I am unable to check it now because the metal of the building i am in blocks the dadio signal.

If verizon time checks against the atomic clock they must have done the count doun anywher form 5 to 30 seconds ahead of time to correct for the dely figuring that the cold wet people in times square would not notice that thye celabrated new years 30 second befor the rest of the time zone.

Posted by: mattack

quote:
Originally posted by Hunter Green

Of course on my TiVo, I gave Dick Clark a miss and got the MTV pajama party, because it triggered my Avril Lavigne wishlist. That needed fast-forwarding even more than Dick would have.

Well, my Avril Lavigne wishlist got triggered too.. but then I found it was rerun twice within the next day (I think I got the 3am-ish rerun).. and my Sheryl Crow wishlist was triggered by Fox's special.. so I actually had to <gasp> videotape <gasp> the overlapping part of Clark's show.. (but unfortunately I did it on a VCR where the connection is getting flaky or something so the video turned out pretty bad.. but at least the musical performances' audio is still ok..)