I don't know how I could ever watch TV without TIVO. I've had a TIVO for quite a few years now, I was an early adopter. We rarely watch TV live anymore -- if we want to watch a show when it is on, we will actually wait 15 minutes. For example, if a show runs from 8-9 PM, we start watching at 8:15 -- and skip the commercials. You still end at 9 PM but you get to watch a continuous show.

If you don't have a TIVO, get one! Most cable companies have their own versions now -- our cable company offers one for $5 a month. Those are usually not as easy to use or feature rich as TIVO, but they do the job. They allow you to see so many more shows than you would normally watch... and there is always something on.

It's not perfect though -- the reason I wrote this is that I was thinking about Prison Break, which I talked about in a previous blog post. I came home late last night hoping to watch PB on TIVO and it wasn't there :(... my fault though, most TIVOs can only record one show at a time, and apparently I had given priority to "Las Vegas" on NBC which runs at the same time as PB on Fox. Luckily PB is re-running Tuesday nights it seems -- maybe due to the Labor Day weekend?