Missing the Point

Now, is this during recording or playing back?

Lucent scientists have filed a patent application for a digital video recorder (DVR) that will detect when the user has fallen asleep—and will then turn off the DVR. As it turns out, Robert Heinlein had thought about this forty-five years ago.

This is the only way I ever get to see anything: by having my DVR keep recording even after I fall asleep on the couch.