The Real Time View

TV Squad has a great article about Tivo today. Basically, the point is that because Tivo allows you to watch your favorite shows without commercials, it actually becomes a drag to watch live tv with commercials. Pete and I have experienced this phenomenon in our house, as well. We will often note that a show we're recording is starting, but then watch something else that is already recorded instead so that we don't have to sit through commercials. The author of this article speaks directly to me, and I'm guessing many of you, when he says that when we do sit through commercials we are paying a show the highest compliment.

All this has got me to thinking that the best compliment a TiVo owner can give a show is to give it The Real Time View. Quickly defined, The Real Time View is when you love a show so much that you're willing to sit through commercials (like a commoner) because you can't even wait ten minutes to build up a TiVo buffer.

yeah...very few shows make it into that realm. Lost definitely does for us. We can't wait to watch it...especially now that it's on at 10 and waiting might mean a whole day. Everything else, though, is pretty subject to tivoification.

You can read the author's take at TV Squad.