Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Complaining about PVR usage isn't going to cut it when you're shuffling that deck of cards around so often and so quickly that using a PVR is the only way anyone is even going to be able to follow a series.

I haven't seen the complaints you're referring to, but it does occur to me that, if the networks can assume that most people have PVRs (or that the people who get most addicted to particular programmes all have PVRs) then their strategy seems pretty good: put the first few episodes on during prime-time, then once everyone is either hooked or not, switch it to half past dogwatch. (Especially if it's a programme such as Heroes, where there's no point starting to watch the series part-way in.) It's the TV equivalent of the magazine world's "Today, Tom Cruise revealed he regularly sticks a ...continued on p168".

Peter