What is TiVo®?
TiVo® is becoming a familiar word in many households in the US, Canada, UK, Taiwan, and Mexico. Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay, who incorporated their company Teleworld, Inc. in 1997, designed it. It combines both hardware and software features that expand the ability of the television consumer to record television and some Internet programs so that they can watch these programs when they choose, rather than at their normally scheduled time. The ability to record programs you’d like to watch later has been around since the development of the VCR. You could even watch one program and record another at the same time if you happened to like two shows that aired in the same time slot. TiVo® differs from the old VCR recording devices in a number of ways. First, anything recorded is saved on a hard drive you can’t remove, instead of being saved on a tape. The machine is called a digital video recorder (DVR). Second, with a VCR you were limited to recording one show at a time. With TiVo® you can
