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    Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose

    Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous

    The Singularity arrives as TiVo adds Domino's Pizza to menu

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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    04/23/09

    In reply to Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose
    DirecTV dumped Tivo a couple of years ago and I absolutely miss them. DirecTV thought "How difficult could it be to make a DVR?". Well in their case, extremely difficult. The announcement that DirecTV is partnering again this year with them has me waiting with bated breath.
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    Image of johnva johnva
    04/23/09

    In reply to Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose
    While I don't care at all for Tivo serving out ads while I'm fast forwarding, I don't think this is all THAT big a deal. They don't superimpose them over the show itself when it's playing, and you can still skip over the ads just as fast. And I can still skip over your average commercial break in a few seconds. Their DVRs also still have a lot of features that most of the crappy cable company ones (the ones offered here anyway) don't. I really like the multi-room-viewing, video transfers to/from computers and portable devices, storage expandability, streaming video from the Internet on the DVR, and UI that is actually nice and convenient. And no, I'm not a shill for them.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    04/23/09

    In reply to Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose
    TiVO needs to understand that people are paying not only for the recording features, but also the "feature" of avoiding ads.


    Windows and Mac OS already make it relatively easy to record from TV input. And they won’t serve you ads while you fast-forward. People should ditch TiVO for a PC-based solution.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/23/09

    @iplaudius: oooh, when you say things like that, it almost makes me wish i watched television.
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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    04/23/09

    In reply to Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose
    Am I the only one who is strangely turned on by that picture?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    04/23/09

    @Almostbanned [jezebel took away my star]: No. I, too, love the ladies who would let their Tivos have their way with them.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/23/09

    In reply to Tivo Succeeds in Defeating its Own Purpose
    I need a Tivo for my Tivo.
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    Image of saltwatertaffy saltwatertaffy
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    i want my pizza handed to me through the tv screen.
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    Image of saltwatertaffy saltwatertaffy
    11/18/08

    @saltwatertaffy: i mean, my celery sticks. i want my celery sticks handed to me through the tv screen.
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    Image of metropolitan metropolitan
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    wow, this is actually quite interesting.

    not in the fat american slob angle sort of interesting but in the idea that tv advertising is trying emulate the "click through" concept of internet marketing. this is the beginning of the future and the sure sign any hold outs and doubters out there that the internet is the media outlet to emulate, not TV, and that TV is going to sooner or later go down the path of print media.


    oh, i'm sorry, i forgot to snark. uhmm... how about this:

    god, i can't wait until i can push a button on my remote control when those pfizer viagra ads come on and i will instantly get a hardon.


    ok?

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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    11/18/08

    @metropolitan: No, TV's gonna stay. How else am I going to watch Monday Night Football?
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    I totally did not authorize this use of my image.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    Can I get a pizza with a lady's happy ending?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    Papa John's; Domino's--pitooey! That's pizza for Real America. I'd rather gnaw a cardboard box with a bit of ketchup on it than eat that chozzerai.
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    Image of seancasio seancasio
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    Support your local pizza joint, folks! Screw these pro-life Nazis!
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    But, will the pizza pop out of my TiVo? Because walking all the over to the door to get it would still be a total pain.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    Bulimics can press rewind.
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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    Domino's does not make pizza, they make tomato byproduct coated, processed dairy cheese-like food covered, baked dough products.

    Now this is pizza, made by an old Italian guy in Brooklyn, with real cheese, tomatoes, olive oil, and basil.

    DiFara Pizza: Two Regular Slices
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    Image of CodePink CodePink
    11/18/08

    @Triborough: Meow.
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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/18/08

    @Triborough: Holy crap I agree with you. Let's never talk about this again.
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    Image of fileunder fileunder
    11/18/08

    @Triborough: Is that pizza from, um, Dom's place?
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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/18/08

    In reply to Pizza Ordering No Longer Strenuous
    I wanna get to the point where they can actually READ MY MIND and tell me what I want before even I know it. Wake me when that happens.


    Also anyone who orders Domino's pizza in New York deserves to be eradicated, like vermin.

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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/18/08

    @Unfun: I mean Jesus, I'd take a fucking Boboli with some Ragu on it over that turd-pie. I think I last ate this stuff 6 years ago, it STILL repeats on me.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    11/18/08

    @Unfun:
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/18/08

    @Unfun: Oh, yes. Fonely there were an auto-Mom to tell you what to eat, or a Tivo Sommalier to recommend food to go with particular programming.
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    Image of CodePink CodePink
    11/18/08

    @Unfun: Yeah, but cheesy bread.
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    Image of Unfun Unfun
    11/18/08

    @BullfightsOnAcid: No longer available!


    @BadUncle: Seriously! Am I the only one who, almost nightly, drools in front of my keyboard, endlessly scanning Seamlessweb or menupages, awash in options, replete with uncertainty, stomach growling, eyes tearing, unable to make a goddamn decision?


    @CodePink: Fine, that's probably good. And I do like Pizza Hut breadsticks too, at least back in the day I did.

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