TiVo

toc =General Information=

= = [| TiVo] is a digital video recorder that allows the user to automatically find and digitally record their favourite shows. It captures the TV programs to the internal hard disk storage to be viewed at a later time. TiVo uses a non-removable hard disk storage unlike the VCR and the software is more advanced. It is intelligent and offers to the user the choice of other similar TV shows. The shoes can be paused and rewound.

The use chooses which program to record by time, program title and other categories such as genre, actors and directors. The database of pgorams depends on the users cable and satellite services and are updated frequently. Programs can be stored until the hard disk storage is full and the user is able to delete them off to record new programs.

=Features of TiVo=

= = = = TiVo has a Season Pass that can record the entire season on a particular channel with the advanced option to record new shows, new shows plus repeats and all episodes. The Wish List are stored searches by categories. They are actor, director, keyword, title and category. Recording are priortized in the Season Pass Manager. Prioritization will be used when there are two programs that should be record but their show times overlap one another. The show with the higher prioprity will be recored. TiVo Suggestions can record programs based on the viewing habits in the household.

TiVo users can rate the programs from three thumbs up to three thumbs down. These ratings are used to produce receommendation scores for shows that are unrated. These scaores are based on TiVo subscribers who have similar viewing habits. The collaboration of TiVo is truly amazing and a next step in TV viewing. When TiVo is not recording a program, it automatically records the current channel into a live buffer, a temporary recording of thirty minute sof recently viewed programming.

= = =Advantages over VCR=

TiVo is able to play recorded programs while recording a new program. This takes away the hassle of holding up the available TV at home. TiVo is able to play a partial of the program while it is being recorded which a VCR is not able to do. This way, if the user only misses the first minutes he is able to watch the show five minutes later without from the beginning to end without having to wait for the show to finish and rewound the VCR tape all the way to the beginning.

Tivo allows users to record programs without any VCR tapes or CD media which provides convinience to the users. The users can just select the show they wish to record without seeting any timers like your traiditional VCR. Tivo gives users the choice to search for their favorite shows and record them automatically. The TIVO allows the viewers to have instant replay or rewind a tv show without recording it. Also, viewers may skip all the commercals in the playback mode in the older versions of TIVO.

=References=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivo http://www.tivo.com/0.0.asp

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