Learn Japanese Today

I know that TiVos are mostly replaced these days, now that Comcast and Dish provide their own digital recorders, but if there’s one thing TiVo was great at, or is (is past tense appropriate), it’s fast forwarding and rewinding. There were a serious of soothing beeps and boops that let you know how fast you were going, and when you hit play while fast forwarding or rewinding it would always back up just the right amount.

But my favorite part was this little button here. It would just backup the tape 2 to 3 seconds and then start playing again, which is an unbelievably convenient feature.

You may be wondering why this is important, and what this has to do about Japanese. Well, today I was watching my new favorite anime, Eyeshield 21 , and copying down some sentences from it to use on my SRS. I was watching on Crunchyroll , so I couldn’t exactly use a remote, and I spent hours (minutes) clicking to move the tape back to the phrase I was copying.

What I’m trying to say is a was really wishing for a TiVo, and more specifically, a TiVo remote.

So do any of you have TiVos? Do you use it to copy down stuff from Japanese shows? If not, you’re a sad, sad pile of wasteful, wasteful waste.

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