May 15, 2003

On TiVo

As you may know, I got a TiVo this weekend. And for a time, it was incredibly awesome. It's great to be able to decide in advance the shows you want to watch, then come home and watch them.

But I was just in the middle of a "Designing Women" rerun (yes, I'm a fag. Fuck off.) and the system decided it was time to restart. Now, it says in the paperwork that comes with TiVo that it will do this at a time when you're not likely to be watching TV. Except I was in the middle of watching a fucking show. Should it not have known that I wanted to know what Charlene was going to do next? Instead, I now have this message:

"Updating Database. This will take a long time."

on my television screen. I am hoping that when said long time is over, that there is a preferences part where I can tell it what time would be OK, in my little world, for it to regularly go through this Database Updating.

Because when it works, it's great. But this is not even the first problem I had with it today. I went out to the movies (I will blog about that soon enough), and the TiVo was supposed to record "South Park." But it somehow was not able to. In fact, it missed three or four of the programs it was supposed to record this evening. "Sex in the City," a rerun of "Will & Grace," and more. So I'm pissed about that. But I guess it means I'll have more time to sleep...

Posted by Jon at May 15, 2003 02:14 AM | TrackBack
Comments

i love me some Charlene and all her sisters Carlene, Marlene, Harlene, Darlene...

Posted by: dennis at May 15, 2003 02:31 AM

I haven't had that TiVo problem in the year or so I've had it. The "updating database" process takes place in the background and you can watch live or recorded programs while it's updating.

Was this the 1st update? I seem to recall there was a long initial setup that left me TiVo-less, but it was only a one-time thing.

re: the missed programs ... is it set up to the right cable settings?

Good luck -- it's a great toy.

Posted by: bob at May 15, 2003 04:09 PM

Actually, the cable box seems to have found a way to turn itself off, and when that happens, TiVo can't record.

And whatever it decided to do last night, it did right before Charlene found out the true identity of the man she was in love with for that particular episode.

Posted by: Jon at May 15, 2003 04:14 PM