TiVo ToGo

TiVo is a really cool little box. It was one of those things that I thought was cool from the time I first heard of it, although it took us awhile to finally buy in. Once we did, though, I couldn't believe we had waited so long. As they say, it's changed the way we watch TV, and it feels like it's changed our lifestyle as well - all for the better, despite my usual bitching about having too much TiVo to watch.

Since the last two weeks have been pretty much free of any TV worth watching, it's given us a chance to clean up our list of "Now Showing" shows, so we're just down to a few movies that we can watch whenever. It probably won't be long till we're backed up again with 50 or 60 shows that need to be watched, and then I'll be stressing about when we're going to find time to watch all of them.

As cool as TiVo is, though, I'm not so sure their latest announcement is going to set the world abuzz - they're launching the "TiVo ToGo" service, which allows users to copy recorded shows onto home computers (and from there to DVD's). I just can't see how that's something I'm going to use much - we have a 55" TV. Why would I want to watch anything on a laptop or desktop monitor? Unless, of course, I'm flying on a 15 hour flight to Asia or something, which I don't do all that often.

I guess saving TV shows to a DVD has some appeal, but again, I don't see the point. Just leave it on the TiVo hard drive - there's plenty of space for a ton of shows. I mean, it's kind of cool, but it just doesn't seem to have much practical benefit to me.

Of course, this is coming from the person who, when first introduced to this new thing called the world wide web, thought that would never amount to much.