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Outside of the "no piles of tapes" factor (okay, and the two channels at one time factor) I don't see much difference between the whole TiVo experience and VCR "timeshifting".
This does, though, remind me of my friend's schizophrenic (now ex) wife. She was addicted to television ... not only would she be watching tv (on the 2001 sized monolith in the living room) but there were three or four vcrs in the house taping different channels, pretty much 24 hours/day. It got worse when they got cable. If a tape switch (to keep episodes of a series from mixing with episodes of another series) was necessary, she'd refuse to leave the house until it was accomplished.
The difficulty was scheduling time to actually WATCH some of these tapes ... the living room had a pile of several hundred videotapes (all placed in those plastic rental boxes and carefully labelled and sorted by content). She casually remarked one day that she and hubby had gotten through about 1/3 of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. (this was during season 5 or 6).
The divorce papers were filed not too long thereafter. My friend at this point does not and probably will never again own a "television machine." He occasionally, I understand, will watch DVDs on his laptop.
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