Kids  shows are really the killer app for TiVo.  This is very, very true.  How do I know this?

First of all, my two daughters get confused whenever a show is not available.  "But I want to see Little Bear!?" says the two-year-old.  She is used to 2-3 episodes of Little Bear being available at all times, except on the odd occasion that our 30-hour TiVo is so chock-full of Franklin, Bob the Builder and Arthur that Little Bear gets squeezed out.   Grown-up shows are not winning the fight for hard drive space, I can assure you.

Its a pretty different TV world for our kids, and I'm not unhappy about this. For instance, when we visit other people's homes or stay overnight in a hotel, we have to explain to the five-year old that we can't pause PBS Kids while she goes to the bathroom.   She's used to the idea that the show is at her command, and not the other way around.  Nice.

Apparently (this is probably an urban legend) the average North American kid watches 10,000 ads before they get to kindergarten.  Not our little sprogs.  We always fast-forward past the UNBELIEVABLY grating and annoying product pitches.  Always.  Sorry, General Mills, sorry AOL-TimeWarner, Mattel, Hasbro and everyone else.  You lose the battle for eyeballs, for now.  I bet they haven't seen 500 in the last 3 years.  Naah, maybe 100.

I like my TiVo so much, I'm like Chuck Heston with a .45.   You'll have to tear my TiVo remote out of my cold, dead hands before I'll go back to the bad, bad, old days.

2:00:45 PM