Embiggening the diskspace on my TiVo
I finally gave in.
The oldest season pass on my TiVo, recording The Simpsons off of Fox 25, has now been deleted.
When I first got a TiVo in 2000, I was thrilled at its Simpsons-gathering abilities. Not just the new episodes, but two reruns a day in syndication too. Awesome.
However, the show has descended into the doldrums of crappiness. Everyone accepts that the golden years were through Season 7, which are all out on DVD now (and which I own). The show was hit-or-miss for a few years after that, but it just plain sucks now. Every time recently that I’ve tried watching a new episode this season, I’ve just gotten depressed about how bad it’s become, and give up before the first commercial break.
And since the syndication is mostly focussed on the last few years, it’s just not worth recording. (I note that even the obsessive of alt.tv.simpsons gave up writing episode capsules in 2002!)
So farewell, then, to OFF. Hope the movie(The Simpsons Movie (2007)) doesn’t suck.