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.

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.

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

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.

TiVo ended UK unit sales in January 2003, though it continued to sell subscriptions and supply guide data to existing subscribed units until June 2011.

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

TiVo polls its network, receiving program information including description, regular and guest actors, directors, genres, whether programs are new or repeats, and whether broadcast is in High Definition ( HD ).

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.

A TiVo DVR serves a function similar to a videocassette recorder, in that both allow a television viewer to record programming for viewing at a later time.

TiVo uses paid programming time weekly on the Discovery Channel on early Thursday mornings and ION Television on early Tuesday mornings in order to record interactive and video content to be presented to subscribers of their service in a form of linear datacasting without the need to interfere with a subscriber's Internet bandwidth.

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.

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.

In October 2004, it was announced that Enterprise was the 25th most popular Season Pass on the TiVo television recording system in the United States.

TiVo branded products returned to the UK during 2010 under an exclusive partnership with cable television provider Virgin Media.

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.

TiVo DVRs also implement a patented feature TiVo calls " trick play ," allowing the viewer to pause live television and rewind and replay up to a half hour of recently viewed television.

* 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.

He picked the gamertag Major Nelson after a character by the same name on the 1960s U. S. television comedy I Dream of Jeannie after it was recommended to him by his TiVo.

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.

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.

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

Major customers include Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Linksys, Logitech, Nintendo, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel ( Avaya ), TiVo and Cisco Systems.

Some of these manufacturers include Lockheed-Martin, Brocade Communications Systems, Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems, Yahoo !, TiVo, Ariba and NetApp.

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.

Tridgell was also a leader in hacking the TiVo to make it work in Australia, which uses the PAL video format.

TiVo was developed by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay through a corporation they named " Teleworld " which was later renamed to TiVo, Inc.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VCRs, DVDs, DVRs ( such as TiVo ), Video-on-Demand, and online video sources all allow the viewer to construct their own flow.

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.

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.

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.

TiVo shipped their first units on March 31, 1999.

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

When a fire starts in their home, Ava quickly takes all her clothes while Tanzie, caring about her father more, takes with her his TiVo and some clothes.

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

TiVo was launched in Australia in July 2008 by Hybrid Television Services, a company owned by Australia's Seven Media Group and New Zealand's TVNZ.

The price of the original ReplayTV units was higher than comparable TiVo units by approximately the same amount as TiVo's lifetime subscription, so a lifetime subscription was essentially priced into the units.

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 ).

* Media FileSystem, the filesystem used by TiVo

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 commercials received critical acclaim, and according to The Hollywood Reporter was the most watched part of the Super Bowl by TiVo viewers.

* Personal video recorder by TiVo and Replay.