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To: TimF who wrote (953)	1/16/2003 9:19:25 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7936

The problem with TiVo is that as 50% of the audience zaps their commercials, advertisers will pay less for ad slots. And that means less money to the companies, which thus have less money to shell out for programming. So the upshot of TiVo is less quality programming to watch. And sports programming, for example, will deteriorate int he number of cameras used and the talent in the booth. Fortunately, there are still plenty of books being printed that don't depend on advertisers.