Life SUCKS without a TiVo
If you've gotten used to having a TiVo, living without one can be a total nightmare. The TV is doing what it wants, and i cant pause anything. This is madness. The TV is rebelling and showing me all sorts of crap, including blatently untargeted advertising.
You know, at first I complained a little bit about the ads that your TiVo would display at the bottom of the main menu, but at least they seemed moderately appropriate, and even more importantly were unobtrusive. I definately checked out many of the movie trailers that it suggested. But now I realize how spoiled I was to be able to skip over the commercials of my favorite programs.
Why the hell should I give a crap about femine products, or microsoft windows advertisements. These ads are a waste of time for me. Why not show me ads for Linux powered embedded devices, internet music radio stations, or offroad components for my increasingly modified 1988 Jeep Cherokee. I dont mind ads, i just cant stand it when someone wastes my time with ads that are completely inappropriate.
Take for example, Pandora.com. It's an internet radio station that plays music based on your opinions of songs it suggests for you. On the right of the player you have a seperate screen which displays music advertisements. This is advertisement that I can deal with.
How about going back to my jeep hobby. Why not, while browsing Jeep websites, only show me ads for parts that will fit my jeep. Does it make any sense to be selling me toyota axles that wont fit on my vehicle?
posted by JonnyRo @ 3:09 AM
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WTF? No TiVo®?!
You should take a break from your now-prolific blogging get back to that cure for cancer you've been working on.
The TiVo's hard drive died after about a year and half of usage.
This is my non upgraded unit in my bedroom. Kelli's monster setup with dual 200GB drives is still running nicely in the living room.
Unfortunately, I gave away her old Tivo 40GB drive mere days before my unit died. Would have been nice to have a pristine copy of the drive image that the TiVo uses. I can extract it from her setup, but I refuse to take apart her working rig.
The potential downside of screwing up her setup is not worth it to me. The risk is low, but the penalty is very high.
If you still have your TiVo around, i can point you to a guide that will help you extract the base image off of it which is much less than 30GB. Needless to say i'm resistant to obtaining it from untrusted internet sources.
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