Dear DVR Users

Dear DVR users,

I have been troubled by your use of the word tivo to describe your DVR.  I know that you feel that your DVR is the same as other DVRs including a Tivo PVR.  I would like to inform you that this is not the case.  Before you begin to argue I would like to ask you to answer the following questions:

1. Does your DVR allow you to switch tuners without concern of which tuner is currently recording a show?

2. When you fast forward does your DVR backup just a bit to account for your one or two second reaction time?

3. Can you view your guide so that you can view a page worth of shows that are currently on different channels as well as see what's on a single channel for the next 10 or so shows on the same screen?

4. If you've been watching a show for 20 minutes and then hit record, does your DVR start recording from the beginning of the show?

5. Does the DVR menus feel like they were crafted by people with interface design experience and  not like they were thrown together by a handful of monkeys and an Apple II?

6. If a show starts at 8pm and is followed by a show starting at 8:25pm, does it show the name of the 8pm show in the guide?

If you answered yes to all of the above questions then my guess is your DVR is in fact a genuine TiVo PVR and please continue calling it a TiVo.  If you answered no to any of these questions, then please call it what it is.  Just another DVR.

Sincerely,
Someone mourning the loss of his TiVo