Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Insightful) 50
I love my Tivo, but - I also owned a VCR for the twenty years prior to my first Tivo. Time shifting has been around for 40+ years now.
True, but limited device intelligence and limited tape capacity made time shifting an exception rather than the rule. Most VCR owners, even those who used the time shifting feature, still watched most of their TV programs at the time that they aired.
With Tivo and other DVRs time-shifting becomes the norm and real-time an exception generally to be avoided.