yo ho ho, tivo

We broke down and purchased another Tivo. We had Tivo when we lived in Boston and got rid of it in favor of Comcast's DVR offering. I kicked myself almost immediately because I gave the Tivo box to a coworker at the time. From day one we didn't like the Comcast DVR. It was hard to use. As a geek, I was amazed that the Comcast DVR wasn't very user-friendly. What I loved about Tivo was that it was sooo easy to use. Anyway, that's our Boston Tivo tale of woe.

Down here in Florida we found that we were missing having the ability to watch Good Times or Golden Girls or Family Guy whenever we wanted. After bugging Steven for a little while he gave in and let me order a new Tivo.

This Tivo is even better than our original one. For starters, it has dual tuners, so it can record two shows at once or we can watch one show while it records another. Our old one couldn't do that. Also, they have improved the Ethernet interface so that our Tivo connected up to our home network immediately once it was plugged into the network. I bought the wireless LAN adapter that was suggested by Tivo but it wasn't compatible with our WPA wireless network. That was disappointing. Supporting only WEP security is so two years ago. Not to be stopped, I plugged the Ethernet port into a portable network jack and voila!, connection established.

Now we can watch Cashmere Mafia, my new favorite show. I am working on getting Steven to watch it. I know he will love it. Thanks HD for tipping me off to this show.