Whats tiVo??

Answer 1

Tivo is a type of digital video recorder or DVR. It allows you to record live television to a hard disk and view it at a later time.

Answer 2

TiVo is like a VCR. Also called a personal video recorder (PVR) or digital video recorder (DVR).

TiVo is a electronic filled box. Inside is a hard drive, which can store dozens or hundreds of hours of TV programming just like a pc hard disc drive. Instead of complicated VCR programming that no one actually uses, Tivo comes with a spectacularly simple software interface you control through a handy remote control.

You plug your incoming cable signal (whether regular cable or DirecTV or Dish Network or satellite) into the Tivo, then plug your Tivo into your TV. From then on, everything you see is coming from the Tivo hard drive - even live TV, enabling you to "pause" TV. Live TV is buffered onto the hard drive and temporarily stored there, allowing you to rewind what you just saw, or pause live TV while you get a snack or put the kids to bed. Un-pause, and you are back where you left off, while everything you missed has been recorded to the hard drive. In this strange way, you may be several minutes "behind" live TV, since you are actually now watching it off the Tivo box and not off any live broadcast.

Answer 3

a DVR... or a digital video recorder... its like your old VCR, but you connect it to your network or phone line, and its so smart that you tell it what shows you like and it will record them whenever they are showing reguardless of time or channel...

its a monthly fee of about $12.99 a month, and the box could cost from $99 to $500, depending on the features you want.

I have 4 tivos, and one DVR from my cable company...

I would go with the cable company's DVR as it works the same as TIVO and only cost$8 a month... and its HD and I can record two shows at once...