Tivo!

Tivo is beautiful, not only does it make recording programs easier since you don't have to fiddle with the tape, it also allows you to easily skip commercials as you watch shows minutes behind the live feed. Apparently, this is indirectly pissing off the writers of our favorite TV shows. Well, someone's favorite shows anyway.

Wired has an article about the stress of inserting ads directly into programming. This is the funniest little tidbit...

In a recent episode of the NBC series Medium, writers had to work the movie Memoirs of a Geisha into the dialogue three times because of a deal the network made with Sony earlier in the season. They even had the characters go on a date to an early screening of the movie and bump into friends who had just viewed Geisha to tell them how good it was.