BBC forces viewers to record its new sitcom
TiVo owners beware. Is this what we can expect from Hollywood and the big networks in the future? I surely hope not.
By Matt Born
(Filed: 30/05/2002)
The BBC was accused yesterday of Orwellian tactics after digital video machines in thousands of homes were switched on remotely to record Caroline Aherne’s new sitcom Dossa and Joe. The move was described as the equivalent of junk mail.
Many of the 50,000 households that own TiVo machines awoke on Friday to discover that the 30-minute programme had been downloaded on to their recorders without having asked for it.…MORE
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Comment from Doubting Thomas
Time: 5/30/2002, 7:17 am
Do what I did: I pulled the plug on my boob tube a long time ago. Now it collects dust until the next time I pop in a video, which is rare these days.