Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Rewind

I love my Tivo™. Sadly, technically I had to forfeit my Tivo when the husband convinced me to switch to Bright House Cable so he could take advantage of the ginormous HD plasma TV he ALSO manipulated convinced me to buy. Bright house has a generic DVR which I HATE. I won’t go into the laundry list of complaints that I have about Bright House’s DVR but I simply say that the switch to Bright House was a huge step down. Now, most would argue that my complaints about the despised DVR are minute, perhaps even nit picky details. But these small details create a much different TV watching experience. I feel the same way after driving the husbands Acura and then getting behind the wheel of my no frills Ford Focus. That is a huge downgrade! Anyway, complaining on how much I HATE bright house is not the point of this post. But let me reiterate once more that I hate Bright House. The point of this blog was to identify the psychological consequences of Tivo and other imitating DVRs. I’m talking about the “rewind your life” syndrome. After years of having complete control over what, when and how fast I watch television, I’m starting to develop intense drives to have this control over other areas of my life. I feel the urge to rewind movies while at the theater, I frequently reach for the radio to hit the rewind button while listening to NRP in my car, and lately, I’ve desperately wanted to rewind my life about 5 years wondering what the hell I did between the ages of 22 and 27. Seeing how this phenomenon has been made into a movie (one of those stupid Jim Carrey movies) I’d say other people feel the same way.

Posted by RiOtPoOf on 10/17 at 04:14 PM
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