[opendtv] Re: 'Friends' Finale Delivers 51.1 Million Viewers
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:48:03 -0400
Dave Bittner wrote:
> Bert, it's never been as simple as you describe it. You still had to
> manually program the VCR, make sure the tape was properly
> positioned so
> as to not tape over something else you wanted to get around to
> watching, fast forward or rewind to get to the show you wanted to see
> (and usually guess which it was, fast forward or rewind),
> hope that the
> show wasn't in a different time slot this week, or maybe a two hour
> special. ...
Granted, Dave, the PVR is easier to program. But the discussion was
more about the relevance of program adjacency than the relative ease
of use of recording devices. Just the remote control alone was
enough to make program adjacency unimportant. The VCR just drove the
final nail in that partcular coffin, as far as I'm concerned.
Why the PVR even entered into the discussion I have no idea.
> Kind of like saying "I don't understand what the big deal is
> about this
> Google thing...libraries have always had card catalogs!"
Excellent comparison!
I also marvel about the Google hype. You don't have to go back
to the card catalogue to understand about better ways of
searching. Did we all forget about Altavista, Yahoo, and
Webcrawler? These were certainly three well-known search engines
that were available long before Google, and that have no more in
common with card catalogues than Google does.
So this is what I don't get. The dynamic of hype.
> And
> most of them say something along the lines of, "Tivo changed
> my life."=20
> Sounds like silly hype,
Or like a religious rebirth? Amen to that.
Bert
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