Todd Zywicki has an interesting point about TV in general at the Volokh Conspiracy. He writes, “The hardest part was being away from my Mega March Madness for the first two days of the tourney. I was on vacation visiting family for Spring Break and–horrors!–I had to watch whatever CBS put in front of me. How do people still live like that?” How do people live like that indeed?

Sports are the one thing I watch on TV in real time. Everything else I record with my ReplayTV and watch later–sometimes much later. For example, last night my girlfriend and I watched a TV show I had record last July.

The good news is that the TV studios are recognizing that people do not like to be tied down to a time slot and forced to watch commericals. As a result the TV studioes are starting to offer TV shows on iTunes and other outlets. Hopefully this will keep up. If they don’t, people will just work around the movie studios and do it themselves through PVRs aren’t file sharing. Just check out how many shows are available on Torrentspy or any other BitTorrent site these days.