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Series: Dominate Your TV

Hard disk-based video recorders free you from the tyrrany of TV schedules

Andrew Laurence No comments

TiVo: Freedom Through Time-Shifting, Part 1

I didn't realize it, but for years someone has been controlling a large portion of my leisure time: the nameless network executives who create the television schedule. I've never thought of myself as someone who watches a lot of TV, particularly compared to the average viewing time of 19 to 32 hours per week (culled from U.S., Canadian and Japanese sources)

Andrew Laurence No comments

TiVo: Freedom Through Time-Shifting, Part 2

In last week's issue, I discussed the barriers presented in our lives by the television schedule, and how a Personal Video Recorder's (PVR) trick play functionality adds new flexibility to the television experience

Adam Engst No comments

Upgrading the TiVo

Tonya and I have been big fans of the TiVo digital video recorder since we first got a 30-hour unit a few years back. It fits our style of watching television perfectly, since we previously used our VCR to record TV shows for watching when we felt like it, rather than on the scheduling whims of network television executives

Alex Hoffman No comments

TiVo Series2 Improves on Original

I've been carrying around a dirty secret for a couple of years now. When I wrote a TidBITS article about Netflix, the DVD rental service I had used and loved for years, I had already stopped using it