i've been thinking about getting a tivo, mostly cuz tv scheduling is inconvenient, and the majority of programming sucks anyway, even if you have cable. plus, i heard tivo doesn't record commercials. i'm not always home, or if i am i'm online, and i'm awake weird hours, so there's a few shows i would like to watch whenever i want [shows worth watching include: enterprise, friends, simpsons, stargate sg-1, max-x, a couple shows off comedy central, that 70s show, and beyond belief - just kidding about that last one]. segue: around 2006, broadcasters are expected to begin piping dtv [digital television] into our shacks providing better picture and sound quality, essentially bringing "perfect quality" shows and movies right to our front door. as you can imagine, the motion picture association doesn't like this. they're protesting basically the same way as when vcrs first came publically available. they fear that if we can just record the movie cable companies broadcast in "perfect quality", then we won't go out and buy it. the mpa is trying to force the hand of cable companies with an ultimatum: fix it to where dvrs [digital video recorders] can't record our movies that you broadcast, or we won't let you broadcast them [one way to "fix" it would be to disable the firewire port used to feed the tv signal back to the dvr]. i'm not sure what i think about this, but i still have my worn out, hardly watchable, vintage vcr copy of rambo first blood [with commercials] which i watched every saturday afternoon for a year when i was like 12. i still haven't bought the movie. so there. Matt @ 11:59 AM