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In the tradition of delaying homework as long as possible, I turned to TiVo for entertainment. I was so ready for something different that I even read the TiVo ads. Turns out that I can rent movies from amazon.com and have them downloaded to my TiVo. Wonderful! I haven't rented a movie in years and never got in the habit of pay per view. I had this vision of all new releases just waiting for me this weekend. Instead the new releases are all the movies that I watched on the cruise ship and airplanes over and over for several weeks. Bummer. I still have hope for the amazon unbox but not this weekend.

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