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[ghini]

When your Tivo gets confused...

Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."

"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."

Comments

[solsistr3.livejournal.com]

so does Tivo tape other things that it thinks you would like?

I bet mine would think I was a 3-year-old and tape me Scooby Doo episodes. Does yours do this? What does it pick for you?

[uglor.livejournal.com]

When we first got it, Tivo thought we really liked saved by the bell. it recorded a lot.

Now it's just confused by the combo of my tastes, liz tastes, and alicas. The only thing we all agree on is buffy.

[ewin.livejournal.com]

I saw a comment today about that article to the effect of, "Why do people worry so much about marketers spying on them, if the methods are THIS bumblingly inept anyway?" :)