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The point of using the TiVo is that they don't even need to push a button. When the Sox come on, it tunes to it. The only situation is when they're watching something else and the TiVo asks if it can change the channel to record something else.



No, no, no! You're missing the point here. With TiVo installed, they will never watch television again. All they will watch is TiVo recordings.

TiVo is completely transparent. The TV set is permanently set to TiVo as the input, and when they want to watch TV they press the "List" button on the TiVo remote, they see the list of programs that have been recorded, they select the one they want to see and press the "Play" button. That's it in its entirety. They will never be asked to change channels, they will never have to know if/when something is scheduled, they will never have to arrange their lives around the television schedule, they will never have to deal with complicated boxes or multiple remotes. They just point the TiVo remote at the TV set to power it on, press the List button to see what's available to watch, scroll down to that program and press the play button.

The TiVo interface is extremely simple at the top level which is where the folks will be using it. Yet, it is extremely powerful and versatile underneath. Whoever sets up the wishlists/seasonpasses can definitely program it to pick up all the Red Sox baseball games and no other, or every baseball game, or just about anything in between. Once it's set up (a 30 minute job at most) it's done and need not be changed. Ever.

I state this without fear of contradiction: If television is even a little bit important to them then TiVo will change their life!

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