I’m really enjoying my new TiVo. It’s so easy to use, and I don’t have to even think about when something is on once it’s programmed to record. I can keep on writing if the writing’s flowing, sleep, even be in a different state and the TiVo does its thing. The first thing I recorded and watched was Reign of Fire. Mary’s guy Gerard Butler and Janice’s guy Matthew McConaughey were in it as was Christian Bale. Not a very believable plot, but it was entertaining. Two other movies I’ve recorded and watched are The Sweetest Thing and Three Kings. Sitting there waiting to be watched are The Aviator, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Time Machine, Ladder 49, and Along Came Polly. I’ve programmed Season Passes for Prison Break, Survivor: China, and Smallville, and the pilot episodes of Gossip Girl, Kid Nation, and Back to You to see if they’re any good.
How many of you have TiVo? Do you remember the first thing you ever recorded? What do you have on Season Passes?
Writing update: I really got to cooking on my chapter outline today. I did 4 chapters and roughed out the remaining six. Over the next couple of days I’ll flesh out those roughed ones, then let it sit and percolate for a couple of days while I work on other stuff. I also revised one more chapter of the other book.
September 10th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
I can’t remember exactly what we recorded first. It was either a football game (because the NFL Sunday Ticket was the whole reason for the DirecTV and the TiVo in the first place) or a show from the Disney Channel.
Disney Channel takes up a LOT of space on our TiVo.
I currently have a season pass for Eureka and just finished Kyle XY. My permanent passes are:
Supernatural
Lost
Prison Break
Scrubs
Smallville
Heroes
Ugly Betty
My kids record Dancing with the Stars and a dozen kids shows. Every episode. Gah!
But I love it. I especially love being able to record two shows at once and pause live TV.
September 11th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Natalie, your season passes look remarkably like mine. How shocking.
I bet Mary’s is similar too.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I LURVE TiVo — it even makes recommendations and does much of my thinking for me.
I don’t know what I season passed first, but I now have:
Eureka
NCIS
The Unit
The Closer
Animal Cops (all the cities)
Meerkat Manor
How Its Made
How’d They Do That
American Chopper
Heroes
Probably more, but I can’t think of them.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I know, Trish! LOL