My cable company sent me a notice in the mail last month letting me know that Video-On-Demand is coming. Now I can look forward to not having to fight traffic and waste gas driving to a video store only to find that the movie I wanted to see isn’t there. A friend of mine swore that once we get VOD, we will think it is the absolute best invention ever.

But there is a down side to progress. The cable company is letting its customers set their own time for switching over because once they do, everything on their DVR list will be deleted. If people don’t do anything, the TV Masters-That-Be will do it for them on a certain date they chose.

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I seriously have DVR on the brain. I was recently talking to a friend of mine about the shows he records, and as I listened to him talk a thought occurred to me. What he chose to record was actually very reflective of his personality. Even the shows that surprised me, really did match up with him. Of course, my media studies student I try to keep buried came out in full force.

As I listened to him talk, I began to critically think about his TV watching habits, and how his viewing choices created this image in my mind. Eventually it made me think about my DVRing habits…

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You know I‘m usually one of those people who firmly stands by my “well I don’t really need that,” principles. However, in the last year I’ve really opened the flood gates. Yes I broke down and bought a nice laptop, a blackberry, a new car (which just btw my old computer and car were in late stages of dying) moved into a nicer apartment, moved to wireless internet and upgraded to U-Verse and with it came my DVR.

Of course I was a little excited about my DVR. I don’t really have a lot of shows I watch regularly, but the few I do I watch I would often miss. I work three jobs and I’m pretty much always on the go. Then there is the annoying point where two of y shows somehow end up in the same time slot. Yes I can flip back and forth, but I always end up missing something. My DVR would make life easier, but it wasn’t the end all beat all everyone was claiming it would be.

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