{"id":2618,"date":"2002-05-28T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2002-05-28T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2002-05-28T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2002-05-28T20:49:08","slug":"okay_margie_her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/28\/okay_margie_her.html","title":{"rendered":"Okay, Margie, here’s a good reason not to get a TiVo"},"content":{"rendered":"

TiVo is now “spamming”<\/a> its subscribers by downloading programs they don’t want, but which sponsors would like to have seen. The programs cannot be erased for a week, and appear on the main menu.<\/p>\n

Protests by the company that it doesn’t use up any user space (it goes onto reserved tracks on the hard drive), that it’s preempted if you’re watching or recording something at the time, or that it can just be ignored are falling on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

Okay, I admit it. I still want a TiVo. But a little bit less than I did before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TiVo is now “spamming” its subscribers by downloading programs they don’t want, but which sponsors would like to have seen. The programs cannot be erased for a week, and appear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7698,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/17\/i_almost_got_my.html","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":0},"title":"I almost got my TiVo","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Jan-05 10:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fascinating story here about TiVo's struggles -- and about a deal that might have changed the technical landscape in my house: After months of hard bargaining, TiVo reached an agreement...","rel":"","context":"In "Hi-Tech"","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7393,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/im_gonna_get_my.html","url_meta":{"origin":2618,"position":1},"title":"I’m gonna get my TiVo?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Mar-05 9:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Comcast and TiVo have inked a deal for the latter to provide software for the former's Motorola DVR platform. 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