Tivo and Tiger
Tivo has a nice feature called Tivo Suggestions. It tracks the kind of shows you watch and then, when nothing else is being recorded, it will record other shows that you might like. Now that the golf season is starting up, it’s recording all of the PGA Tour events even though I have cancelled my Season Pass. I feel bad deleting them all and marking them with a thumbs down. Maybe Tivo needs a natural language processor so I could explain my actions:
Hi Tivo. Thanks for recording all my shows. You do a wonderful job but your customer service department is terrible. I don’t hold that against you though. You’re just a box trying to please me. And that’s what we need to talk about. Lately you’ve been recording PGA Tour events for me as suggested shows. Last year, I would really have appreciated that. I watched the PGA Tour regularly. But you see, it’s different now. Tiger isn’t playing. Didn’t you notice that when I watched golf I would fast forward to only watch when Tiger was playing? Now that he’s not playing, I’m not interested. So what happens when he comes back? I don’t know. I feel like I’ll probably try to watch again, but I’m afraid that golf will end up in a similar situation to baseball. The athletes I looked up to let me down and ruined the games for me. If Tiger really is repentant, maybe I’ll be able to come back to the sport. At least he wasn’t juicing like those baseball players. So Tivo, while I appreciate your efforts, please stop recording the golf shows for now.