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...that you aren't ready to see." The box doesn't say anything about all the wires you have to hook up, either, but the soul-window thing, that was the real problem. TiVo, the most advanced machine for taping TV shows, lures you in by masquerading as the VCR you've always dreamed of: it lets you program by a show's name instead of the time it's on and remembers to record your favorite programs every week. But its real mission is to expose you--by taking upon itself the task of taping things it thinks...
...isn’t all that bad, though. Besides my co-workers’ crazy antics and the Class Day tape of Conan O’Brian that got “stuck” in the display monitor’s VCR, there are also the “interesting people” I meet when I give my tours. The first tour I ever gave was to a group of middle-aged Latin American professionals who didn’t exactly speak English and didn’t exactly understand that here in North America, we don?...
...same time, just as the VCR turned moviegoers into home cineasts, video and DVD releases of old TV shows promise to create a generation of videasts. And it's not just a handful of hits that benefit. Rhino Home Video, for instance, offers cult classics ranging from Chris Elliott's slacker sitcom Get a Life to the trippy '60s kids' show H.R. Pufnstuf (the DVD versions offer videophile gimmicks like being able to turn off Life's laugh track). This is a material world: if you convert an evanescent work into something tangible, shelvable, revisitable and Christmas-giftable, we respect...
...starting to feel a little last-century--they're big, they jam, and the pictures often deteriorate over time. If you feel in need of an upgrade, take a look at the Terapin CD Video Recorder ($499). As its name implies, the device records video from your TV, VCR or camcorder and then burns it onto regular old CDs. Video on CDs? It sounds weird, but you can play them on a PC with a CD-ROM drive, or on some DVD players or on the Terapin itself...
...Buying a minivan with a VCR and television in the back Too many parents unthinkingly invest in a car outfitted with a newfangled "entertainment" system, then stick their kids in the back and drive happily to their destination, undisturbed by the usual squawked demands for soda and high-pitched infighting over whose foot is creeping over the imaginary boundary drawn down the center of the back seat. When the trip is over, the now drooling kids are ushered into a cabin/beach house where a Playstation is warming up. Years later, when the kids are 22 and serving time for armed...