Richko collides with the TiVo revolution

Yesterday I welcomed a new tenant to my home. A little box by the name of TiVo. I got a super-sweet deal on it from Amazon.com: $40 off the regular price AND a $150 rebate! Final price: $110, plus a $13/month service subscription. (Keep in mind that in 2 1/2 years in this apartment, I had yet to hook up my old VCR, so if I wasn't here to watch a show, I was SOL.)Ain't technology grand? I just polished off the first of many programs captured by my new tenant. That would be Will & Grace, recorded at High Quality, scheduled by Season Pass, category: Sitcom, "Keep until I delete."

Woo-Hoo!!!!

Here's what else I've taped already.

• Joey
• Night Stalker
• ER
• Drawn Together
• South Park

and on top of that, I'll be getting all of:

• The Daily Show
• Nip/Tuck
• Lost
• Invasion (best. show. ever.)
• The Simpsons

Not The O.C. right now, though. Can't record 2 shows at once, and it conflicts with Joey & Will & Grace. (Why am I recording Joey, for fuck's sake? Cause of W&G - and it would make no sense to record only the 1st 1/2 of The O.C. So I'll just hafta watch The O.C. live, I guess.)

Which brings me to a startling realization. I watch a helluvalot of TV, and this device is probably gonna make it worse. I mean, can you imagine my squeals of delight when I saw the whole slew of horror movies that are on basic cable between now and Halloweenie? There's no way I'll have room to record all this stuff I want. Yikes!

This device seems to provoke some really strong emotions in people. There's the fans, of course, who have gone to great lengths to make this wonder-box even cooler:

and there's some other peeps who've been turned off by it for whatever reason (I hear the setup can be a bitch, even though it was pretty much of a breeze for me); still -- yikes!


But for now, after Day 1,

I {heart} TiVo!!!