PluggedIn: TV Viewers Find TiVo Addictive
Tue November 11, 2003 06:53 PM ET
By Elinor Mills Abreu

"TiVo television recorders that allow viewers to replay programs and skip commercials have turned casual TV watchers into prisoners shackled to sofas, unable to keep up with the flood of their favorite shows.

"For something that is supposed to be relaxing and unwinding at the end of the day, you (think) 'Wow! I have a lot of shows to watch,"' said Scott Bedard, technology director at an online media company in San Francisco.

"Will I ever catch up?" he worries aloud."