Yes! Invade my privacy if it means less mindless tripe on TV! Maybe then they wouldn't cancel Farscape to run even more lame SG-1 episodes.

Targeted advertising is not far away: digital TV can do this now. I would love to be able to push a button and see: "People who watch this show also enjoyed xyz" maybe if ads were targeted well enough, they wouldn't even have to intrude your viewing; it could be an optional service that people would actually seek out. It sounds odd, but it's not that far fetched; if you were watching an old Bogart film, you might actively wonder "where could I get a fedora like that"... and with digital TV and the Internet, it could be brought up easily on your screen.

We had a Tivo, it died on us, and was replaced by a ReplayTV. There are tweaks I would do to both systems to get them better, I love Tivo's ability to only record instances of shows you have not watched with a seasons pass, or give me a listing of what its going to record. I love that ReplayTV won't delete anything unless I set it to, or go in and delete it. Commercial skip can be hit or miss, on some shows its dead on, on others its flakey. If you ever are watching a British comedy on it, best thing to do is turn off the commercial skip, otherwise you may miss part of the middle of the show.