On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 10:32 pm, you wrote:
> After you play with it, it's not too hard.  If you are used to the screen
> for your cable or satelite it won't take too much adjustment.  You can mark
> show you like or dislike (it's got little thumbs up, and thumbs down
> buttons on the remote).
> The down side is that the box does know what you watch.
>
> Beth t the OT
>

Do they insist you keep it plugged into the phone socket (so that it can
"phone home" with the valuaable data of what you have watched!!)

Imagine political parties "customising" campaign literature based on what you
watched over the last 12 months.  See this:-

<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030602/sfm030_1.html>

This is why I purchased my PVR - no such Big Brother tendencies.

Cheers

Deri