Word: tivo
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...full-time Dell workers who lost their jobs since February, in an economy that has been shedding 100,000 workers a month since the beginning of the year. Last week Winstar Communications, once a wireless wonder, hung up on 2,000 employees--44% of its staff. TiVo, Sycamore Networks and Extreme Networks added more bodies to the tech sector's growing pile. AOL Time Warner, parent of TIME, has announced 2,400 job cuts in response to the slowing economy and pressure from Wall Street. By week's end unemployment had hit 4.3%, a slight but ominous rise. Worse...
...bloated pre-game show: not ABC's paltry, sycophantic half-hour with "Entertainment Tonight"'s addled Julie Moran, but the E! Entertainment Network red-carpet coverage, which I joined sometime around 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon but had apparently been in progress since about mid-January. Ultimate TV and TiVo, the fancy electronic video-recorder gadgets, advertise an inordinate amount on the E! pre-show, sending the implicit and quite accurate message that if you are spending a weekend afternoon watching, not just Joan and Melissa Rivers, not just Steve Kmetko and Jules Asner leading up to Joan and Melissa...
Pressing thumbs is how TiVo learns which shows you love and hate; when it figures out the kind of stuff you like, it records it automatically. With Ultimate TV, you have to wade through the onscreen schedule and manually select each program you want to record--unless you choose a "season ticket," which records a show each time it's on. The device also warns you immediately about scheduling conflicts and, as with TiVo, makes it insanely easy to zip through the commercials...
...fair to Ultimate TV, its main advantage--two simultaneous channels of everything--is a huge one. Last Thursday, for example, it dutifully recorded both Survivor and Friends. With TiVo, I can't watch one while recording the other. If you're a career couch potato with many such conflicts, you may be able to overlook Ultimate TV's faults...
...like me, and all you really want is grippingly well-made TV on demand, no recorder loves you back like TiVo. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to make up for my unexplained absence with some serious thumb action...