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Recorded News
This is the basic idea behind Tivo and VCRs. (Read the full article)
| "I always feel like laughing when the newscasters say, "Thanks for staying up with us!", cos the truth is, we don't. We tape the 11:00 news and Jay Leno, and watch them the next morning while eating breakfast.
" ( 8/31/2005 1:58:09 PM ) |
| "Exactly! I got so tired of turning on CNN headline news and getting endless repetitions of celebrity-in-trouble stories, or that week's 'trial of the century', that I bought a DVR and now I can listen to the Daily Show and the Lehrer report anytime I want." (Bill 8/31/2005 2:38:54 PM ) |
| "What Verne was talking about sounds exactly like RSS fed podcasts....eerie.
" (ThinkTankTed 6/23/2008 11:18:54 AM ) |
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