I wonder how many massive press conferences are held to announce the arrest/conviction/sentencing in the average murder case in Anacostia. I wonder under what rationale it is more appropriate to dedicate wall to wall coverage of a prostitution ring (where at worst, the only "victims" are just a couple of very offended wives) than it is to dedicate any coverage whatsoever to a drive-by shooting that leaves someone dead.
Is it worth spending over $500 on a Tivo? I'm sorry to report that it is. The Series Three has all the functionality that made its older products the best DVRs around: an intuitive user interface, transparent menus, simple and fast recording. Now it's added HD capability and two cable cards so you can record and watch at the same time (or record two shows). With the cable cards, the most annoying feature about older Tivos--the latency switching channels--has disappeared. They've also added new features that prove surprisingly useful, such as the ability to download movies on a whim from Amazon's Unbox service. I'd give up my dishwasher before I'd part with this.
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