On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Oct 27, 2:44 pm, Bob in Jersey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> DVRs!!
>>
>> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et- 
>> channel27-2008oct27,0...
>> 78.story
>>
>> "Research shows that viewers with DVRs tend to watch more TV than  
>> people
>> without the devices and also that they use them more as the evening
>> progresses. So, the thinking goes, by the time 10 p.m. rolls  
>> around, many
>> DVR users are catching up on shows they recorded earlier in the  
>> evening
>> and skipping altogether the dramas that are scheduled by the  
>> networks for
>> that hour."
>
> Guess it's easier to blame the technology than the shows.
>
> I still neither have a DVR nor want one and still somehow manage to
> avoid the 10 pm shows.  Wonder why that is?

the other thing that always gets me about articles like this is the  
notion that nobody ever recorded tv until DVRs came out. did all those  
people who were buying VCRs since the 70's really just leave the clock  
flashing 12:00 and only use them to play rented or bought tapes?

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