DVR and Interactive TV

I really enjoy using DVRs or digital video recorder and things like Tivos. I think that it just makes TV even more convenient to people. At the same time however I think it just encourages more television to be watched on a daily basis. Americans watch so much TV as it that I couldn't imagine that this might actually increase the hours watch more. In an article I found on the Internet it said, "More than 70 percent of consumers who currently own a DVR told surveyors that they could not live without it". That's crazy.... I have had a DVR once and that was last year and truly I am living without it. Another bit of information I found our from this site is that people who own a DVR typically watch one hour of "live" television and four hours of recorded content that's still quite a bit of television. Do you think that those four hours of recorded content would have been watched if not for the DVR???

Personally I like the idea or the DVR but I will let you decide is it good or is it a bad thing that is aiding in the over watching of the TV???