Phutatorius tells it like it is:
Diary of TiVo Angst, Entry #451: The DVR is ten minutes from erasing your week-old — but still unwatched — episode of 24, but your Wife is watching a recorded episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and she won't surrender the remote. What do you do, Jack Bauer? tick-tock, tick-tock . . .