Comment Fifty-Seven (hundred) Channels And Nothing On (Score 1) 494
As a certified techno-geek whom you would think would be considered part of the current target market, I can tell you exactly why I haven't bought one of these things:
Because 99% of what's on TV these days is vapid, mindless crap designed to appeal to sub-literate mouth-breathers with the attention span of a ferret on a sugar buzz, the memory capacity of a lobotomized Alzheimer's patient, and the sense of humor more normally exhibited by scatologically-minded six-year-olds. What few half-competent, marginally entertaining jewels do exist buried within the steaming pile of horseshit that TV has become are so few and far between, that I can record an entire week's worth of what pathetically few "good" shows do exist on a single T160 cassette (in SP mode) and go through it on a Sunday morning before lunchtime.
In other words - Television, as a whole, sucks. Unless TiVo contains some magic software that converts the incoming signals into something worth watching, a $600 (plus subscription fees) black box sitting on top of the TV set isn't going to make it suck any less... so why would I want it?
Because 99% of what's on TV these days is vapid, mindless crap designed to appeal to sub-literate mouth-breathers with the attention span of a ferret on a sugar buzz, the memory capacity of a lobotomized Alzheimer's patient, and the sense of humor more normally exhibited by scatologically-minded six-year-olds. What few half-competent, marginally entertaining jewels do exist buried within the steaming pile of horseshit that TV has become are so few and far between, that I can record an entire week's worth of what pathetically few "good" shows do exist on a single T160 cassette (in SP mode) and go through it on a Sunday morning before lunchtime.
In other words - Television, as a whole, sucks. Unless TiVo contains some magic software that converts the incoming signals into something worth watching, a $600 (plus subscription fees) black box sitting on top of the TV set isn't going to make it suck any less... so why would I want it?
