I watched a lot of TV over the Easter weekend, but most of it was not on the telly box in the corner of the room but on the BBC iPlayer - a service that has revolutionised my television viewing.
What better way to while away endless hours than by propping yourself up in bed with a nice cup of tea and the lap top?
I caught up on Ashes to Ashes, the brilliant 10 Days to War and my two favourite shows of the moment, BBC3's Gavin and Stacey and the filthy and wrong, but brilliant, Pulling, amongst others.
I don't have a Sky + box so have never previously experienced that life changing moment people tell me happens when they first get their hands on the device and realise they never have to watch ads again, can store whole series and fast forward and pause at the touch of a button.
The iPlayer may not have all of those features - well, not yet, at least - but I feel I have finally been able to catch up with that big technological leap of being able to watch TV pretty much when I want and not when the schedulers say I should.
And unlike Sky +, I don't have to pay for the privilege - yes I do know I pay for the iPlayer through my TV licence fee, but I was stumping up for that anyway.
The downside to the iPlayer of course is that it is only BBC programmes I can watch. And as I have an iBook I can't download them, but that doesn't really bother me.
Channel 4 still stubbornly refuses to let me use 4oD on my iBook, so it is the BBC all the way for me.
The fact that you can only watch programmes for seven days after they air is frustrating. And when I get into a show I want to watch several episodes in a row which of course you can't do unless the beeb has screened a double bill on linear TV.
But aside from that, and some slight technological issues like the odd jamming of shows and a bit of distortion of sound and image, I am a convert.
And in the process, along with the thousands of others who like me have been won over by on-demand telly, i have helped hammer another nail in the coffin of the old school linear TV schedule as we know it.
