Comment Re:why (Score 1) 696
The Slate article uses some pretty weak arguments, if you ask me (and I know you didn't). It mentions that 30% of the people who got one from that British research group couldn't figure it out -- WHICH MEANS 70% COULD.
And which is harder? Setting up your TiVo to record 60 hours of your favorite TV, or doing what my aunt does: she has four VCRs set up all over her house which at any given time will be recording her soaps, those fake justice shows, etc. If ever a person needed TiVo, it's her!
Lastly, the difference between the Newton and TiVo is simple: TiVo works, the Newton didn't. (Having never owned an Amiga, I can't comment on that.) Remember the Simpson's episode where "Beat up Martin" becomes "Eat up Martha" when scrawled on a Newton? TiVo doesn't have any similar flaws that have made it a laughing stock in popular culture like that.
Long live TiVo.
And which is harder? Setting up your TiVo to record 60 hours of your favorite TV, or doing what my aunt does: she has four VCRs set up all over her house which at any given time will be recording her soaps, those fake justice shows, etc. If ever a person needed TiVo, it's her!
Lastly, the difference between the Newton and TiVo is simple: TiVo works, the Newton didn't. (Having never owned an Amiga, I can't comment on that.) Remember the Simpson's episode where "Beat up Martin" becomes "Eat up Martha" when scrawled on a Newton? TiVo doesn't have any similar flaws that have made it a laughing stock in popular culture like that.
Long live TiVo.
