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With the possible exception of the electric nose- and ear-hair clippers, there is no device in my gadget-heavy house more consistently and surprisingly good at its job than the TiVo box. As you really should know by now, TiVo is the personal video recorder (PVR) that learns the kind of shows you like, saves them on its internal hard drive, zips through commercials and pauses live...
...even the networks' new role isn't guaranteed forever. Already, viewers who use digital recorders like TiVo can record programs and choose from a list of suggestions supplied by their recorders, all without knowing what network a show airs on. Granted, today these are fledgling gizmos used by a handful of technophiles. But in the future, this technology may be standard in your cable box - and the software on it could be so sophisticatedly attuned to your tastes that you will watch not ABC but your smart box's own custom-made grouping of shows: say, the 32-Year...
...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...
...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...