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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, keeping up with your favorite TV shows meant tuning in at just the right time, week after week. If you had to take a phone call or put a kid to bed while the show was on, tough luck.

TiVo launched its first digital video recorder (DVR) in 1999 TiVo has officially stopped selling digital video recorders (DVRs) The company first introduced the DVR to the market 26 years ago, ...

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 ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of TiVo Inc. The company is adopting the iconic TiVo brand, marking the ...

In a story by Roberto Baldwin, Wired is reporting that TiVo — maker of the iconic, industry-creating DVR — has laid off most of its hardware design team and is getting out of the hardware business ...

I am amazed at how cheap motherboards have come down (there's this ECS -sorry if it's wrong- for around $80?) and yet, TiVO -thanks to branding deals- is still ridiculously expensive.<P>So, I thought ...