We live in a wireless world, right?

Just about everyone has a cellular phone. Internet access is available via wireless wi-fi connections. Many of us travel around communicating with our wireless Blackberry’s and Palm Pilot’s. We even have a wireless device connected to our A/C at home, which allows Southern California Edison to shut the A/C off, in times of high usage, for a reduced rate. Credit card transactions are conducted wirelessly.

There are wireless speakers for your stereo, and you can control most home electronics from just about anywhere wirelessly.

We live in a wireless world. Wires are a thing of the past. Especially the phone line. Right? Well not so fast.

If we live in a wireless world, why does DirecTV require I have a phone line connected to my TiVo box, in order for me to get my TiVo connected? And this from a company that sends TV signals wirelessly to homes.

Even TiVo users, without DirecTV, can hook up wirelessly using a USB adapter to their boxes instead of hooking it to a land line, but DirecTV has disabled the USB ports on the receiver.

I don’t understand it. I don’t like wires. We disconnected our land line telephone service 3 years ago, and went strictly cellular. We get free long distance anywhere in the US, plenty of free minutes for making calls, not to mention the convenience of having a phone anytime, anywhere you need it. Even on the golf course! I don’t see the point of a land line any more.

So why do I need a phone line to hook up my TiVo? Someone tell me, please!