On Sun, 09 Mar 2014, Holger Granholm wrote to Tom Walker:

TW>I am in the middle of a project to replace my 4 Analog VCR's(3 for
TW>recording and 1 for playback) with a TiVo unit.

 HG> And what is a TiVo unit. Please explain to enlighten me.

TIVO is the original Digitial Video Recorder... it is what became of the
original *nix with TV Tuner card and large HD with software that could
record output from the TV Tuner to the HD for later viewing... TIVO was
spun off as a $$$ venture which provided the box all configured and ready
to go...

somewhere around here, i have the posted plans for the original device
before TVIO was created as a company... i doubt that the software is
available today like it was back then but it may very well be...

the main additional desirable features offered were program listings like
TV Guide(1) that carried and recognized a special encoded show numbering(2)
so that one could tell the unit to record a show by its number and not
worry about having to set the time for it to be recorded(3)... since the
service has to pay for access to the program listings and the show numbers,
it didn't make sense to just give that away to millions so it was part of
the service sold at a subscription rate similar to satellite and cable...

another good thing with TIVO was that the recording service worked with
inputs from off-air antenna, satellite and cable connections... one only
needed to have the tuner unit that had the connections they desired to
use... but, as with all things, that was then... this is now :/

FWIW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo

https://www.google.com/search?q=TIVO

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