I’m generally a believer in the “build it and they will come” concept. And therefore I believe Apple’s IPad (and no I haven’t registered to pre-pay for one) will do screamingly well. And so it’s surprising that I’ve waited this long (9 months?) since buying a Digital TV before realising that my old VCR no longer records, and that, well…I know I don’t really watch much TV, and well, it might occasionally be handy to tape something, and well – maybe I should do something about that.
So, Kim and I finally snapped last weekend (nothing to do with the Winter Olympics or the AFL pre-season btw), and true to form, did 6 months worth of online and magazine research in 12 hours, and bought a TiVo unit at the first place we walked into. And a wireless router.
Part of me wanted the whole internet-flexibility of playing Youtube vids, streaming downloaded TV series from my PC, and be able to attach a huge USB drive thing. Another part of me just wanted a simple device to tape shows on, and be reliable, and have no ongoing costs. Kim agreed with the second – hence the TiVo.
It’s a matter of great embarrassment to Aussie tech-heads that concepts like TiVo took 9 years to hit Australia (July 2008) after the U.S, but that’s just life in the provinces I suppose. The new unit is madly recording like a fiend every time I look in its direction (it seems to just tape things it thinks you’ll like – Two and a Half Men, anyone?). Yikes. We’re loving it so far.
Awesome! I had no idea Tivo was taking off there! I’ve always been dead jealous of America greedily holding onto it 🙂
Well, it’s taken off in our household. Everyone else I’ve talked to has Foxtel and use their IQ boxes for the same. At $580 dollars I figure I’ll be ahead of Foxtel in 6 months – and I get to keep it.