When you're away from TiVo what do you miss most?

When I travel for business, I literally don't turn on the TV in my hotel room (except to throw on CNN while I'm getting showered and ready in the morning).

Seriously, the idea of "What's on right now" and "What channel?" (especially with unfamiliar hotel cable lineups) is so foreign to me that I can't find anything worth watching and just don't bother.

 

The last time I was on vacation and had time to watch TV, I had two thoughts.

1. "I have 49 shows in Now Playing that are better than this drek".
2. "Ack! Where's the FF button? This commercial sux!".

 

I usually don't watch anything but sports and news when I'm away. Most hotel cable line ups don't have anything I prefer to watch anyway.

Larry

 

If I have Internet access I use my slingbox to watch my TiVos. If I do not have Internet access I do not watch TV.

 

I miss browsing through the wishlists, and the schedules for TCM, FMC, IFC, etc. and picking out all those great movies to record. That I wind up hardly ever watching but I will someday.

Also, deleteing all those TV episodes I started tivoing two years ago but then finally watched the first couple and they were lousy.

In general I like my Tivo a lot more than I like TV.

 

I love my mil, but she is a chatterbox. I usually don't bother watching much tv at her house because she talks through whatever is on and I miss half of it.

 

ah the beauty of TivoToGo and having shows on your smartphone to watch that can still be FFed through as needed.

last vacation I had setup Orb at home and the kids wtached Avatar via the opera browser on the Wii I brought along. Course most of the time we were outside playing ta the beach or pool so did not need a lot of shows just a few for that little bit of down time

 

I miss the recorded shows the most.

I don't watch TV when I'm not home.

 

Product Watch followed by KidZone.

Actually I like getting the opportunity to occassionally watch TV the old fashioned way. It has its merits in limited quantities.

 

Trick play and the 14 day guide.

 

Ff

 

- Instant Replay
- FF through Commercials

 

I often find myself trying to rewind to watch something again or FF through commercials when I'm away from my TiVo.

 

P A U S E

 

Nothing - Slingmedia is your friend In fact I type this from my hotel room with my TiVo playing in the other window!

 

I take a TiVo with us and transfer a bunch of shows off of the other DVR's.

I also use a PlayStationPortable or DVR burner to watch shows. Weather I'm flying, sitting in the airport or driving down the road we can always have a TiVo recording to watch.

My next purchase will be a Slingbox to round it all out. TiVo for me is about control, when I can take any show with me in an airplane, that's something!

What I do find is that I'll reach for my XM or Sirius radio to FF or hit the 7 second rewind.

 

Watch it, Hot or Not junkie.

 

The Sirius unit I bought has a 45 minute buffer, so I can do exactly that.

I leave it on overnight so I'm 45 minutes behind "live" when I start off to work in the morning. Song comes on that I don't like? Hit FF once to skip to the next one.