February 26, 2008

• So I watched the 80th Annual Academy awards this past Sunday, and I thought it was great. Then this past Monday, I read and hear how people are complaining that it was a rather boring Oscars. Really? Then why did I get the opposite reaction? Is it because I'm more of a "movie-buff" than the average person? Maybe it was... Oh wait, that's right, It was probably the fact that I did not watch it live. I watched the awards show through time-shifting with my DVR, and I guess that really made a huge difference with my experience. I waited about an hour and a half after the show started, and then started watching it from the beginning. The commercials, and any portions that I was not interested in; which was the majority of the acceptance speeches, I would just fast forward through them. I think I went through the four hours show in just about an hour and a half's time.

  Watching TV with a DVR really makes a huge difference sometimes. Prior to my Direct TV DVR or my TiVo DVR before that, I've been time-shifting TV even when I primarily used a VCR (two of them). DVRs really makes watching TV a lot more enjoyable than normal, and I just can't see a reality anymore where I couldn't time-shift.

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