• by Manning Field , February 22, 2007

1) IT WAS INTERESTING to read Mike's Bloxham's analysis of DVR selections and some of the differences by gender and age. In our house we actually have "his" and "her" DVRs. My wife and I arrived at this arrangement based really on the puny size of the hard drive in our Comcast DVR and my desire to record in HD. Ultimately I want a big hard drive in my basement and have all of my monitors/TV networked -- but for now, we'll have our separate content accounts.

2) A request of some of the broadcast network(s): please stop making shows 61, 62, and 63 minutes long. It messes up the ease of "season passes" for the consumer. I still get the other content. It's just harder and annoying. At least when NBC was supersizing Thursday programs, they were giving you substantively more content. It's a trick that in the long run will alienate the consumer.

3) What happened to "24"? What used to be one of the best and most anticipated hours of TV is now kind of a self-parody. It's fallen from my must-see list to the if-I-have-time list. "Heroes" is much more interesting.

Manning