I was going to say this same thing about the TiVo and then later AppleTV. I thought the TiVo looked cool, but I was like, “eh, I have a VCR. It’s good enough.” But doing stuff to live TV was incredible. And being able to find things by searching with an interface instead of looking things up in TV Guide or whatever, was also great. Instead of thinking, “I wonder what’s on at 7:30 tonight?” it became, “I wonder if anyone’s showing StarGate this week.” It was a world of difference.
Downloading commercial-free shows on the original AppleTV was also awesome, and then once streaming started, there was no going back for me.
Downloading commercial-free shows on the original AppleTV was also awesome, and then once streaming started, there was no going back for me.