Since its launch in the United States, the TiVo has also been made available in New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Spain.

TiVo also integrates its DVR service into the set-top boxes of satellite and cable providers.

TiVo also provides a range of features when the TiVo DVR is connected to a home network, including film and television show downloads, advanced search, personal photo viewing, music offerings, and online scheduling.

More recent TiVo DVRs can be connected to a computer local area network, allowing the TiVo device to download information and even video programs, music and movies from the Internet.

iTunes uses Bonjour to find shared music, iPhoto to find shared photos, iChat, Adobe Systems Creative Suite 3, Proteus, Adium, Fire, Pidgin, Skype, Vine Server, and Elgato EyeTV to share local recordings with multiple clients, the Gizmo5 to find other users on the local network, TiVo Desktop to find digital video recorders and shared-media libraries, SubEthaEdit and e to find document collaborators, Contactizer to find and share contacts, tasks, and events information, and Things & OmniFocus to synchronize projects and tasks across the Mac desktop and the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

TiVo subscribers with a TiVo Series2 DVR connected to their home network have access to Live365 as part of their home media center.

YouTube and other internet based video services allow users to watch network shows on demand on their computers by using TiVo and other set-top boxes such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.

The OMN network operated as a large, centrally controlled grid network for the distribution of free radio and TV content over P2P, described as " part TiVo, part BitTorrent file swapping ".

This is because internet-based TV listings sites and the on-screen interactive program guides ( IPGs ) built directly into most of today's cable and satellite set top terminals, as well as into digital video recorders like TiVo, have mostly obviated the need for a dedicated TV listings channel by providing the same information in a speedier manner, and often in much more detail and with greater flexibility.

Season Pass can also refer to the term coined by the manufacturers of the TiVo personal video recorder for their function which allows a user to program the device to record all of the episodes of a series, even if their airings are rescheduled or pre-empted.

In cases such as TiVo and Google, there has been an informal agreement between the modders and the company in which the modders agree not to do anything that destroys the company's business model and the company agrees to support the modding community by providing technical specifications and information.

* DVR devices such as TiVo became popular, making it possible to record television broadcasts to a hard drive-based digital storage medium and allowing many additional features including the option to fast-forward through commercials or to use an automatic Commercial skipping feature.

Laporte has written technology-oriented books including 101 Computer Answers You Need to Know, Leo Laporte's 2005 Gadget Guide, Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo, Leo Laporte's Guide to Mac OS X Tiger and Leo Laporte's PC Help Desk.

Seven is building and acquiring a range of broadband businesses, including wireless broadband group Unwired, VOIP operator Engin and has become the Australian licensee for TiVo, due to be launched in 2008.

The shows are distributed through a wide range of platforms and distribution partners, including Virgin America's in-flight entertainment system, CNET TV, iTunes, BitTorrent, YouTube, PyroTV, Miro, TiVo, and Zune.

It provides a 10-foot user interface for performing typical PVR / TiVo functionality, including playing, pausing, and recording live TV ; playing DVDs, videos, and music ; viewing pictures ; and other functions.

TiVo provides an on-screen guide of scheduled broadcast programming television programs, whose features include " Season Pass " schedules which record every new episode of a series, and " WishList " searches which allow the user to find and record shows that match their interests by title, actor, director, category, or keyword.

Unlike a videocassette recorder ( VCR ), which uses removable magnetic tape cartridges, a TiVo DVR stores television programs on an internal hard drive that can only be removed by disassembling the device.

What distinguishes TiVo from other DVRs is the sophisticated software written by TiVo Inc. that automatically records programs — not only those the user specifically requests, but also other material in which the user is likely to be interested.

TiVo DVRs with two tuners record the top two priority programs.

Hulu, YouTube, TiVo, On Demand, and other computer-mediated technologies are making this process affordable, quick, and easy.

They are also commonly featured in digital video recorders such as TiVo and MythTV.

Traditional forms of advertising have become less and less effective in reaching consumers fragmented over hundreds of channels and with the introduction of new methods of delivering programming, such as internet streaming and digital video recording devices such as TiVo.

provides for protection from increased consumer control due to new technologies, i. e. TiVo

For example, nearly half of the 100, 000 new TiVo subscribers in 2005 did not redeem their $ 100 rebates, allowing the company to keep $ 5, 000, 000 in additional profit.

The original TiVo DVR digitized and compressed analog video from any source ( antenna, cable or direct broadcast satellite ).

This model featured a tuner to allow watching television in a PIP ( Picture-In-Picture ) window while waiting for pages to arrive, allowed one to capture video stills from video camera, VCR or broadcast television as a JPEG, and included a video tuner that allowed one to schedule a VCR in a manner like TiVo allowed several years later.

Innovations like TiVo and ReplayTV allowed viewers to store and timeshift broadcast content using specialty designed computers.

TiVo ( ) is a digital video recorder ( DVR ) developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999.

After exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1999, Mike Ramsay announced to the company that the first version of the TiVo digital video recorder would ship " In Q1 ," ( the last day of which is 31 March ) despite an estimated four to five months of work remaining to complete the device.

Hybrid TV is the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand.

The graphic identifies the source of programming even if it is time-shifted — that is, recorded to videotape, DVD, or via a digital personal video recorder such as TiVo by possibly station identification.

This is important for products such as Moxi & TiVo CableCARD DVRs, televisions with picture-in-picture and CableCARD-equipped personal computers, which need to be able to record one show while the user is watching another.

It was founded by Steve Shannon, a former executive of ReplayTV, a TiVo competitor that was to became a unit of D & M Holdings, and is now owned by DirecTV.

The title character, Dr. Gregory House is asked why he has a season pass for The New Yankee Workshop on his TiVo, and responds that " t's a complete moron working with power tools.

In this regard it is similar to a modern satellite receiver or TiVo unit.

On the same day it was announced that TiVo would be arriving in New Zealand by Christmas 2009 ( Hybrid launched it in Australia in July 2008 ).

As CND did not have a national membership until 1966, the strength of public support in its early days can be estimated only from the numbers of those attending demonstrations or expressing approval in opinion polls.

However, since the contras failed to win widespread popular support or military victories within Nicaragua, since opinion polls indicated that a majority of the U. S. public was not supportive of the contras, since the Reagan administration lost much of its support regarding its contra policy within Congress after disclosure of CIA mining of Nicaraguan ports, and since a report of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research commissioned by the State Department found Reagan's allegations about Soviet influence in Nicaragua " exaggerated ", Congress cut off all funds for the contras in 1985 by the third Boland Amendment.

This calculation depends on a number of variables, such as its performance in opinion polls and the size of its majority.

Kenny's comments have support however and the party attributes its significant rise in polls in 2008 to this.

The polls revealed the substantial usage share of Galeon, though its popularity was regarded as owing to lack of stability evident in Mozilla's browsers.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

Kaunda's UNIP party boycotted the parliamentary polls to protest the exclusion of its leader from the presidential race, alleging in addition that the outcome of the election had been predetermined due to a faulty voter registration exercise.

Since Mississippi ratified its constitution in 1890, with provisions such as poll taxes, residency requirements, and literacy tests, it made registration more complicated and stripped blacks from the polls.

Opinion polls soon showed that he took most of LN's supporters with him, leaving LN with its original 2 %, while Fortuyn soared to 17 %.

Opinion polls showed the party struggling to return to its post-election 36 % approval level.

However, its success at the polls did not translate into a lasting party machinery.

On April 7, 2009, Sauk Village voters went to the polls to elect its first African-American Mayor in its 52 year history.

This album frequently appeared at the top of Christian Music magazine readers polls of the " album that people most wanted to see released on CD ," until its eventual reissue on CD in 2000.

The Labour Party, under Dick Spring were riding high in opinion polls and pursued a campaign independent of its traditional coalition partners Fine Gael.

However, the resignation of long-serving but at that point unpopular Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the well-received election of John Major as her successor had seen the comfortable Labour lead in the opinion polls wiped out and in the 17 months leading up to the election its outcome had become much less predictable.

Riding high in the polls, it appeared that the party was poised to win the 1986 election against the unpopular Social Credit government of the day but due to a minor verbal gaffe by its new leader Bob Skelly during the campaign and the surprising charisma and telegenic performance of the Socreds ' new leader William Vander Zalm, the party failed to score its anticipated breakthrough.

However, less than 72 hours before a planned election call, with the NDP riding high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " Bingogate " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parliament Dave Stupich.

* Republic of China ( Taiwan ): The Democratic Progressive Party selects all its candidates via opinion polls.

One member of this group, George Cadle Price, topped the polls in the 1947 election when he opposed immigration schemes and import controls and rode a wave of feeling against a British proposal for a federation of its colonies in the Caribbean.

The Likud is now led by figures who oppose further unilateral evacuations, and its standing in the polls has suffered.