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More Than a Recorder: 6 Other Reasons to Get a TiVo

GeekSugar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:04:36 -0700

Watching live TV is so 20th century. These days, advantages in technology let us enjoy one of life's great pleasures - watching the tube - without being chained down by a schedule. A DVR is great, but a TiVo DVR offers a ton of features besides just recording your favorite shows.

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How To: Take Your Fave Shows on Your Travels

GeekSugar — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:50:48 -0700

Traveling is terrific, but I get full-on separation anxiety when I leave my TiVo. I just don't like feeling disconnected and I miss my shows - even when I know they are waiting for me upon my return. Good news, sports and soap fans: there a handful of amazing applications and devices that will allow you easy access to your media. Set your recordings before you leave on that jet plane.

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Have a Fabby Halloween!

FabSugar — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:00:22 -0700

I would like to wish you a Fabby Halloween...and my Sugar sisters would like to wish you a Happy Halloween! Quite a few of us dressed up for the office today so I thought it would be fun to share our costumes. You can visit Giggle to guess who each monster drawing is and take a look at the gallery below and guess who's who in the flesh. Also be sure to read all about PartySugar's Halloween bash. I hope you enjoyed all the Halloween coverage on Fab, until next year!

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TiVo Launches 'Swivel Search'

GeekSugar — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:00:43 -0700

TiVo has launched a new universal Swivel Search option, which provides broadband-connected TiVo subscribers the ability to quickly find programming. Apparently, rather than starting with a title or keyword users can search using the way they intuitively think about television; that is, by starting with a program they currently enjoy and using elements of that program to find more of what they like.

Universal Swivel Search allows viewers to link from descriptions of one program to all others that have common elements, including program name, actors, or suggestions based on other viewers' feedback. Additionally, users can find programs related to a specific subject with 'tags,' which are topic-related terms that might not be included in the program's title or episode description, but fall under an over-arching subject of interest. read more

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By way of example, a user would start with a television show or movie that they enjoy, for instance Seinfeld. Seinfeld features Julia Louis-Dreyfus from the cast list. With the click of a button, the viewer can 'swivel' and see other programs that the actor appears in, for instance, The New Adventures of Old Christine, including both broadcast lineup and available for download. Additionally, from that cast list a user can select Clark Greg and discover that he was also in The West Wing. With universal Swivel Search, a TiVo subscriber's search can jump from a show to an actor, to a second actor and then to another show, following a unique path through the content that interests them. The new 'swivel' ability is not limited to actors, but available on topic tags, or even lists of similar programs.

"A consumer has on average 200 channels of programming through digital cable, which adds up to over 30,000 hours of programming every week," said Jim Denney, vice president of product marketing at TiVo. "Then combine that with the thousands of hours of content that is currently available through download via Amazon Unbox™ on TiVo or TiVo's TiVoCast service. Now with Swivel Search, consumers will be able to easily find and get content that is most interesting to them no matter where it comes from."
Universal Swivel Search began rolling out to broadband-connected Series2 and Series3 subscribers on Tuesday.

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Netflix On TiVo - Almost As Good As It Sounds

GeekSugar — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:00:47 -0700

You can now view or modify your online movie queue with popular DVD rental programs like Netflix, Blockbuster Online and even Amazon's Unbox by downloading a simple and free TiVo plugin.

This does not mean you can have your Netflix of Blockbuster films on demand on your TiVo or even download them, but it does give you easy access to your movie queue when you're sitting in front of the TV.

You can access, browse for movies by genre/category and keyword and update your Blockbuster or Netlix movie queue with TiVo and your online service. I'm in love with this feature because I only think about my Netflix queue when I receive reminder e-mails or when I am playing with my TiVo wishing I had a great movie to watch because 90 percent of the stuff I TiVoed enviably falls in the "TiNo" category.

As for Amazon Unbox, you can rent or purchase and download videos on your registered TiVo, watch video previews on TiVo ToGo enabled receivers, view or modify video preview queue and do regular searches by genre, category or keyword.

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Get the TiVo plugin for free.