For me, it has become a DVR world. And now, for millions and millions of others the television landscape has changed. We are no longer tethered to getting to our TV's at certain times or on certain days. We are no longer forced to program our VCR's or DVD recorders and then hope and pray everything works out perfectly. I still have a picture of me and my college girlfriend wearing the tape from a VHS on our heads from the night the VCR ate said tape in the middle of recording the new episode of Seinfeld. Never again does this have to happen!
But before DVR's started catching on, television networks started bumping the ending of one show to the beginning of the next show closer and closer. This my friends, has done nothing but screw with my DVR. The DVR cuts off the final ten to thirty seconds of a show week in and week out. If I don't tape the next show, I never get to see the ending, or if I watch the shows out of order, I see the ending before I see the beginning and middle.
Yes, I know the DVR has a nifty little function that allows you to continue taping a show for one minute after the show ends, but this doesn't work on days when I'm taping lots of shows, and that wouldn't solve the problem of watching shows out of order.
For me, the DVR has brought back the joy of great sitcoms on Thursdays. I watch New Girl, Happy Endings, Suburgatory and How I Met Your Mother. This is what makes the DVR so great. It allows the viewer to create their own television schedule and watch shows on their own time frame.
So please, for god's sake, can we just contain a show within the time frame it's scheduled for. Is this too much to ask for?
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