If I were to win the lottery...

So if I managed to hit the lottery and get a few hundred million I'm thinking I'd want to share it with my readers. To prove you're a reader I'd have to have some kind of requirement like you've posted a comment in the last six months or something like that; that's beside the point but it might be a reason to start commenting. I only get a few hundred commenters every six months so what's a few thousand bucks per commenter if I just got a couple hundred million?

So here's the sharing part: Assuming I offer you your dream laptop what would you pick (it must exist, you can't make up a non-existant machine) and why? I don't need model numbers, I'm just wondering what features you've want/need and what you'd use it for. In good faith, this would need to be a laptop for you to keep and use, not sell.

Of course, this would also include a year of paid subscription to one of the wireless networks like T-mobile (Border's and such), WayPort (McDonalds and Aiports) or some service I'm not aware of (you did put WiFi in your dream machine didn't you?). Which service would you want/use the most?

New TiVo Overlap Protection Enhancement (so you don't miss over-lapping shows)

TiVo added a new enhancement this week (or at least it showed up on my TiVo, it might not be on yours yet but it should download it soon) called “Overlap Protection”. Now it can help with goofy network show times, ome shows are scheduled from 9:00 to 10:01 or something similarly goofy, so now the 10 o'clock show previously wouldn't record it due to the overlap (or depending on your “priority” settings, it might not record the other one). The enhancement is now it won't skip the second show, it'll just give priority to the hight priority show and chop the few minutes from the lower priority show! Yeah!

You've been able to “pad” a show for a while now, which means you take a show that's on from 8-8:30 and you know it always runs a little late so you pad two minutes at the end. Now it records from 8-8:32 (let's assume it's a season pass). So I'm assuming it protects and gets most of the show. We'll have to see.

I did see that manual individual recordings take priority.

What's the limit though? If it's an hour overlap into a two hour show, does it still tape half of the two hour show? I now see there's a five minute limit in this overlap. It's too bad that's not adjustable (5/10/15/30/60/120), I'd probably set it for ten or fifteen minutes. I'd only use the hour option around the olympics or something like that where it's okay to miss the an hour of a four or six hour show.

This is only for the series 2 recorders (the ones with USB ports on the back) but not DirecTiVo. If you don't have 7.2.1 you can ask to get on the request list and they'll bump you to the head of the line. It's not that much of an upgrade but just in case you're running a much older version (I don't know what other versions are still out there) you might want to request it.

[This post has been modified quite a bit from when I posted it earlier today]