The term "ad-skipping" is frequently bandied about in discussions of TiVo's effect on advertising. It is important to understand that the TiVo DVR does not let you skip commercials altogether. What it ...

What is it with the rash of new set-top boxes lately? One recent box brings the best of the Internet to your TV screen, such as podcasts, Web videos and Internet radio. Another one is a video recorder ...

People who are not familiar with TiVo tend to assume that it is simply another recording device, perhaps an improved type of VCR. But this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the TiVo user's ...

TiVo has pulled the plug on its revolutionary video-recording device. On October 1, TiVo ended sales of its physical DVR hardware and accessories, adding that its remaining inventory had also sold out ...

For years now, TiVo — the company that’s synonymous with digital video recorders — has marketed its product by arguing, rather defensively, that it’s not just a DVR. That’s true: Modern TiVos are ...

As the title says, the harddrive (WD1600AVVS) in my Tivo HD (TCD652160) has apparently gone dead. The Tivo does the "Please wait, now powering up" loop, ultimately resulting in a gray screen. After ...

Back in the days when the dot-com frenzy was nearing its peak and I was covering high-tech full-time for this newspaper, scarcely a week passed without someone showing up in our newsroom offering a ...

TiVo is back...sort of. Xperi, the owner of the TiVo brand as of 2019, announced at CES 2025 that TiVo OS will be available in the US for the first time on Sharp TVs. The storied TV brand was last ...

I had two tivos and switched to the Comcast DVR.<BR><BR> View image: http://i22.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/c1/7c/26_1_b.JPG <BR><BR>That is the remote I have...<BR><BR>I ...

The TiVo box, its peanut-shaped remote and its home screen are all now victims of the streaming video revolution. (PRNewsFoto/PRN) Back in the days when the dot-com frenzy was nearing its peak and I ...