The Official TiVo-Spotting Thread

[PaulaBerge]

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Wanna know which Hollywood star is totally absorbed by SpongeBob SquarePants? We've got your broadcast news:

Sarah Jessica Parker may be dealing with the demands of new motherhood, but she still can't bear to miss an episode of The Osbournes. And with Tivo -- a digital video recorder that can store up to 80 hours of TV programming and even selects and records shows based on users' viewing habits -- she doesn't have to. "Breast-feeding is an around-the-clock deal," explains Parker. "During those very lonely early-morning hours, I watch what I've Tivo'd (yes, it has become a verb); Frontline, The Amazing Race, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 60 Minutes, The Osbournes and anything with Spencer Tracy," (What, no reruns of Square Pegs?) Parker's not alone in front of the small screen -- Ben Affleck, Heather Locklear, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Britney Spears all use the gadget to catch up on their colleagues. Or even to indulge in a little deja viewing: "I feel weird about it, but I've Tivo'd myself," says Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon. "I got tons of Jamie Foxx shows and the times I was on Arli$$." But even stars who watch the old-fashioned way can't get enough tube time. Flip through the following pages to see what makes Hollywood's must-see TV list. --Elyssa Lee

[TreborPugly]

4/7 Daily show refers to Tivo users as being advertising deficient due to commercial skipping, in their "Ad Nauseum" bit.


Treb.

[JYoung]

Just heard Howard Stern talking about TiVo again.
Apparently, Artie's girlfriend gave hime one for Christmas and he still hasn't hooked it up, saying he's not sure how to :rolleyes:
Howard said that it was easy to hook up, even he's done it. Howard then said that TiVo was easy but the remote was too complicated with a million buttons on it. :rolleyes:
Fortunately, Robin protested that.....

[Joey303]

Just saw a headline in today's Wall Street Journal about the cable guys going after TiVo . . .

[agentcoop]

On a new ER last week, Dr. Susan made mention about her plans for the night included cuddling up in bed with a guy named Tivo lol

[Rcrew]

Was fast forwarding while watching an older Practice recorded this week. Suddenly noticed what looked like a Now Playing frame in an ad. Backed up to see a DirecTV commercial with DirecTV's DVR. Installer and customer sillyness while the Now Playing screen is displayed on the TV.

[SteakMan]

Cartman just used his TiVo and a wading pool to electrocute and transport himself to 1776 so that he could experience history rather than study it.

-SteakMan-

[pilotnh]

Originally posted by SteakMan
Cartman just used his TiVo and a wading pool to electrocute and transport himself to 1776 so that he could experience history rather than study it.

-SteakMan-


Time travel with your TiVo? Hmmm.... must be in version 5.0

[AJRitz]

Originally posted by pilotnh
Time travel with your TiVo? Hmmm.... must be in version 5.0

Nah - it's always been there. It just takes a hack to access it. According to Cartman, the hack involves filling the TiVo drive with history shows about the time to which you want to travel and then electrocuting yourself with the full-of-history TiVo. This leads to a near-death experience during which one experiences the history stored on the TiVo drive.

WARNING: This hack will void your warranty!!

[sschwart]

The Yankee game on YES, the broadcasters were talking about some show coming up, and said to fire up the VCR or set the TiVo..

Kinda nice to see TiVo's being mentioned more and more :)

[njtaz]

On Will & Grace tonight (Dolls and Dolls) Will mentions something like TiVo recorded all those American Idols for me.

[jmace57]

On ZD Net's Anchordesk is the following article titled "Why the PC still can't replace the TiVo"

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2913457,00.html

Regards,
Jim

[natamatt]

Sunday's The Born Loser comic strip - Didn't actually mention TIVO but was about DVRs.

http://www.comics.com/comics/bornloser/archive/bornloser-20030427.html

And

Saturday's The Buckets comic strip mentioned TIVO

http://www.comics.com/comics/buckets/archive/buckets-20030426.html

[njtaz]

Rebecca Romijn was just on Leno and she was talking about how John Stamos uses TiVo to tape some show that I never heard of - elimidate?

[bsoft]

"elimidate"

It's a late night dating show where a man/woman goes out with three other women/men and he/she votes people out (eliminates them).

It's pretty lame, but it's better than paid programming (the only other thing on at that hour).

[BryanRDC]

Of course, if you have TiVo, you don't have to watch paid programming or Elimidate.

[LoadStar]

I was just about to start another thread for this mention...

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos was talking about shows she watches - mentions that she's a big Trading Spaces fan (and based on the way she describes the show in detail, she really is), then mentions that she TiVos it... actually uses the phrase "TiVos it." Almost makes me wonder if she reads this forum. (If you do, Rebecca, please post!!!)

She then comments how John Stamos is into Elimidate - and if you doubted that she actually has a TiVo, she then describes the "TiVo must change the channel" screen when mentioning that the TiVo was flipping over to the show.

This has to be one of the best unsolicited celebrity endorsements of TiVo I've seen ever!

[Actuary321]

Of course the story was in the vein of most embarrasing moments.

TiVo outed them as watchers of elimidate by popping the message during their Oscar's party with all their friends watching.

So TiVo can have it's down side.

[alanc]

On the new Weird Al Yankovic album "Poodle Hat", there's a TiVo mention (or perhaps more correctly a reference to the New York Times article) in the song "Couch Potato" (a parody of the Eminem 8 Mile song) - "I only watched Will and Grace one time, one day - wish I hadn't, now TiVo thinks I'm gay."

[MyM3]

I didn't read the entire thread so this may already have been covered but for the last 6 months or so David Letterman has been referring to TiVo in the setup for various bits fairly regularly. He usually says something to the effect of "I was at home watching {fill in the blank} TV show and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this so I TiVo'd it and brought it into work to share with you." Last week's shows had almost nightly TiVo references. Cut to doctored and/or phony TV ad, promo, etc. Hilarity ensues. I'm pretty sure that Dave has a TiVo in his home - wonder how big his hard drive is?

[raitchison]

Heh I have a radio reference from this morning.

Today on Kevin & Bean (popular morning show here in L.A.) they were talking with Pat O'Brien from Access Hollywood.

They were discussing some upcoming TV program, the program happened to conflict with a concert this weekend so one of the radio hosts said they'd be sure to set our VCRs to record the show. Pat's response "or you could use TiVo if you were a little more.. hip." :D

[Action]

during the interview following the Tradin' Paint event. He and Juan Pablo Montoya swapped cars and ran some laps. Here is Jeff's quote:

...I watch F1 every chance I get. If I can't watch it, I Tivo it because the times are off a little bit, but I like all different types – I like motorcycle, you know, GP racing and all that stuff.

[jdfs]

It is mentioned so often now that it is almost pointless to mention here. I've must have heard it 5 or 6 times mentioned on Jimmy Kimmel and many times on the radio (here in NY on WFAN, Howard Stern, etc.). It seems that a majority of celebrities have it since money is no object and many are away from home often or have strange hours.

[trainman]

The Los Angeles Times' sports media columnist Mike Penner went to a public showing of a soccer match in HDTV, and managed to mention TiVo in his column (http://www.latimes.com/sports/printedition/la-sp-penner17jun17,1,6433188.column?coll=la-headlines-pe-sports) about the experience. The relevant excerpt:

"Last Wednesday, I had the option of watching Game 4 of the NBA Finals at home or driving in rush-hour traffic to spend $12 to watch a high-definition broadcast of a match between two of the worst teams in Major League Soccer, Colorado and D.C. United, on a 40-foot high IMAX screen.

"Naturally, I went with the soccer....

"I knew I made the right choice, because there would be more chances to watch the Spurs and Nets dent backboards. And, besides, the TiVo was running.

"(Stern is lucky that TiVo, though an advanced piece of electronic equipment, is not discerning. Beware the day when you select Game 4 of the NBA Finals to be recorded and the machine fires back, 'Oh, come on now, can't you think of anything better?' In a hurry, I set the machine to record the game in 'best quality.' An ironic choice, I realize now, but I was running late.)"

[Rolnikov]

On Saturday Frank Black (singer, formerly of the Pixies) was on BBC Radio 6's Steve Lamacq show, and said that his mum has a Leonard Cohen wishlist set up on her tivo, and so whenever he goes to see her she gets him to watch them all with her. It was in the context of discussing whether there was a Leonard Cohen influence on his new album.

Frank asked if we have tivo over here, and Steve Lamacq said no. But then he said we didn't get Curb Your Enthusiasm either, and the producer had to tell him it was on BBC4.

[DLSith]

I am surprised I didnt already see this posted some where, sorry if I missed it.

But next week on Sex and the City (June 29) Miranda becomes obsessed with her TIVO. It even has shots of the menu. Looks pretty good.

[GDN]

Originally posted by DLSith
I am surprised I didnt already see this posted some where, sorry if I missed it.

But next week on Sex and the City (June 29) Miranda becomes obsessed with her TIVO. It even has shots of the menu. Looks pretty good.

Maybe a little off topic - I'm looking forward to Tivo getting that kind of publicity - but I am having to re-record Sex and the City tonight - because HBO can't keep itself on schedule and was running about 2 minutes behind last night. I've already modified the Season Pass to record 5 minutes longer to make up for stupidity and inability to keep a schedule at HBO (as well as most of the other networks- the worst of which is NBC).

[DLSith]

I SP'd SATC last week and we were watching an episode from last season and I noticed it got chopped off, so I added two minutes to the recording.

But that wasnt even enough. Last night we watched it live (its that important, and besides there are no comercials to make it worthwhile to wait) and I noticed tivo shut off before the preview of next weeks came on.

Stupid HBO.

[ashu]

Originally posted by GDN
... to make up for stupidity and inability to keep a schedule at HBO (as well as most of the other networks- the worst of which is NBC).

NBC? Ha! You obviously don't record anything on MTV, or as I like to call it "Multiple Time-stretch Viewing" ;)

[rich]

During Jay Leno's monologue last night, he said that Tampa Bay won some kind of sporting event "but it was so boring that my TiVo forgot to record it."

[GBaz]

Try tnn tivo sees that the shows start on the hour but they are always starting on the 5's

[njtaz]

The Lieutenant on Monk mentions he has a TiVo when telling the captain he could stay over his house instead of at Monk's.

[trainman]

And a certain member of this forum was responsible for making sure "TiVo" was correctly capitalized in "Monk's" closed captions. Okay, me. :D

[whoknows55]

Originally posted by trainman
And a certain member of this forum was responsible for making sure "TiVo" was correctly capitalized in "Monk's" closed captions. Okay, me. :D

Wow, I actually noticed that and wondered if it was you.:)

[rhuntington3]

Coolness!

[lpwcomp]

On the latest episode of Dead Like Me, one of "Millie"(George)'s co-workers is thinking "Oh crap, did I TiVo Iron Chef?"

[JYoung]

Ton Leykis got into a discussion of TiVo on his radio show today. He mentioned how grate it was to be able to fast forward through the Video Music Awards.
A caller asked him why they weren't selling like crazy.
Leykis started to talk about how the TiVo concept didn't lend itself well to the 30 second commercial and talked about how the commercials focused on pausing Live TV instead of it's other features.
It was at this point I had to answer a phone call and missed the rest of the discussion....

[bkeyport]

Originally posted by JYoung
Ton Leykis got into a discussion of TiVo on his radio show today. He mentioned how grate it was to be able to fast forward through the Video Music Awards.



Ya, the VMAs Grate on anyone.

:D :D :D

[grecorj]

If you watch the sneak peek of "Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" on the recently released "Two Towers" DVD, you'll notice a TiVo sitting beneath the TV Peter Jackson is watching while lounging on a couch. At least it looks like a TiVo to me (and you see what appears to be a peanut remote as well).

[Actuary321]

Last night on Leno.

Said, "I told my TiVo to record the Democratic Presidental debate, and it asked, 'why'"?

[raitchison]

The other day I was watching an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDSWJS) and they were doing a "story" on the northeast blackouts.

The "correspondant" was sitting at home talking about how he no longer trusted the power company and was going to completely self sufficient.

Part of the joke was him getting causgt using electricity, one instace was his microwave beeping as it was finished and the other was the familiar beboop from a TiVo.

[Slider10]

I know it's mentioned on Tech TV a lot, but they're currently trying to give one away on Call For Help.

[Bigdude]

Originally posted by JYoung
Ton Leykis got into a discussion of TiVo on his radio show today. [snip] It was at this point I had to answer a phone call and missed the rest of the discussion....

Now that I've gotten so spoiled being able to pause TV, it's really frustrating that I can't pause or rewind the radio! More than once I've started to reach for the remote, only to think "D'oh! It's the radio!"

[cello]

I've done the same thing. I also find myself reaching for that IR button at movies.

[Fustanella]

I'm getting a serious feeling of deja vu from this thread. Strange.

[old7]

I'm getting a serious feeling of deja vu from this thread. Very Strange.

[ccwf]

Originally posted by Bigdude
Now that I've gotten so spoiled being able to pause TV, it's really frustrating that I can't pause or rewind the radio! More than once I've started to reach for the remote, only to think "D'oh! It's the radio!" There are forum members here who use TiVo to record radio, although this seems to be most common for those members who have cable boxes that make radio stations available as cable channels.

[njtaz]

Well its the first episode of The Brotherhood of Poland, NH and they have already plugged Tivo twice. Randy Quaid's wife on the show says he Tivo's Kaite Couric and watches it when she goes to sleep.

[Naipes]

The Mullets had a TiVo reference. Hahaha

[Naipes]

Originally posted by ccwf
There are forum members here who use TiVo to record radio...

Wait a minute, isn't that stealing music? I think the RIAA would like to know about this so they could file a law suit.

[MikeCG]

Originally posted by Fustanella
I'm getting a serious feeling of deja vu from this thread. Strange.

Have you ever had "vuja de"? It's the funny feeling that something never happened before. (With apologies to George Carlin.)

[destek]

Monk:
"Mr. Monk and the very very old man" episode:
Randall Disher invites Captain Stottlemeyer to stay with him - "I have Tivo" he says....

Des

[dr_mal]

Jennifer Garner on Letterman the other night - "I watch Martha Stewart on my TiVo at night" or something to that effect.

[jrock]

I have seen references to TiVo quite a bit lately on TV. The Brother Hood of Poland New Hampshire and Joan or Arcadia are the most recent from this week's new CBS Lineup, on The Brother Hood of Poland New Hampshire it's actually part of the story line where her husband TiVo's a sexy news cast lady and watches her late at night when his wife is asleep, then on Joan of Arcadia it was just a quick sarcastic comment from the Book Store owner about how everyone knows how to use electronic things such as Computers, Digital Camera's, etc. and TiVo was one of them. I have heard it on a dozen or so shows over the last 6 months. I see the other threads of people saying TiVo is going out of business but I just keep hearing about it more and more and it seems like a lot of people have it so I think it is here to stay.

[megory]

I posted a thread about this and see I shoulda posted here . . .

I was just checking Yahoo Personals. Part of their profile is asking about TV viewing habits (e.g., do you watch sports, documentaries, reality TV, etc.) and their final selection is:

Tivo is my best friend

[jrock]

I just saw Scary Movie 3 at the Movie Theater tonight, Cindy earnestly tells her nephew that she will take him to the doctor to get a defective yet highly important male body part fixed "right after I get TiVo."

-Joe

[keefer37]

Last week's Scrubs episode had one of J.D.'s interns saying, "Remember you let me go home early to set my TiVo to record the Styx Behind the Music?" hehe

[Shark73]

Last weeks episode of ED had a comment about Trading Spaces being TiVo'd.

[sguthrie]

There was a mention in game 6 of the world series. THey were talking early in the game about the last time the Yankees were eliminated from the post season at home. A couple of innings later, that turned out to be the trivia question for the game. One of the announcers siad "those of you with TiVo will be able to get this one."

[Shark73]

CNBC this morning was discussing the recent TV ratings for the Big 4. To sum it up quickly, the Big 4 have seen their ratings during prime-time drop in their target demographics.

One person on CNBC brought up the possibility of TiVo or PVR's contributing to the decline in viewership during prime-time hours.

[jrock]

Hmm, how would that lower the ratings if it's being recorded on TiVo it still counts as someone watching it doesn't it? How does this whole ratings system work?

Originally posted by Shark73
CNBC this morning was discussing the recent TV ratings for the Big 4. To sum it up quickly, the Big 4 have seen their ratings during prime-time drop in their target demographics.

One person on CNBC brought up the possibility of TiVo or PVR's contributing to the decline in viewership during prime-time hours.

[Shark73]

jrock,

I'm not sure how the ratings work. I was just passing along the TiVo spotting info!

[dr_mal]

Letterman last night [edit: 2 nights ago; I watched it last night], talking about the latest Warren Zevon album:

Turn the TV off now and, no, no, TiVo the show, head out to your local record store and buy this album now.

[ericL]

Letterman again, last night:

"Now I don't want to throw you off, or mess up your TiVo, but we're going to do the CBS mailbag now." Referring to it being on a different night than usual.

[murgatroyd]

Jake 2.0, "Middleman", aired today (11/5)

Jake is sitting in a dull lecture, starts to eavesdrop on what else is happening in the building, hears a snippet of conversation:

"... the big grey one controls the TiVo...."

:D

Jan (owner of TiVo with Big Grey Remote)

[Krellis]

Jennifer Garner mentioned TiVo yet again on tonight's Leno ("I always TiVo Martha Stewart's show) just like her last appearance, and when she was on Letterman. Do they pay her or does she just REALLY love TiVo? :) (In addition to being incredibly hot, of course :))

[Tivoli]

Did anybody see Tivo's 1m subs were mentioned on First Business? The Bell Boys had a quick chat about it, Jonathan (of capitalist pig) said "... it was like 2 months ago you bought your first cell phone, come on! go and buy a Tivo already! you'll love it promise you" (or something like that).

A while back they talked about Tivo again but that time they were talking "over paid or underpaid" a few CEO's were mentioned, then it came to Tivo's CEO who is paid about $300k (?), Jonthan said he was underpaid.

[alan]

PluggedIn: TV Viewers Find TiVo Addictive (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20031111/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_dc)

I hope that URL above works. It basically talks about the plight of TiVo owners and their constant massaging of the "Now showing list" and SPs and ARWLs to get all those wonderful shows we want to watch, but have no time to watch.

It's a gross generalization (and we all know how wrong those can be).

[keefer37]

Alan, that article's right on. As all of the TiVo experts on this board will point out, some of teh background facts aren't exactly right (as in only being able to pad 1-5 minutes, etc.), but I totally identify with the article. It's right on IMHO.

[kitsap]

It is right on ... and I think I need help!!! :eek:

[TiVoPony]

I think everyone should record Oprah today. So a little birdie told me...

Pony

[alan]

Well, it is a gross generalization, but one that I fit into well and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I'm sure there are a handful of TiVo owners that have no idea why anyone has a problem, which is why I put the disclaimer. I really didn't really mean to give the impression that they got it all wrong. :D

I too find myself constantly massaging the SPs and ARWLs, I think I could probably spend an entire evening doing the maintenance tasks. Of course, since I have two TiVo's just multiply that by two. I really wish I had a back door into the management features that I could store and manipulate via my many computers, and I'm sure there are back doors out there, but that's one area that would be nice to have for this TiVo/TV addict. :D

Alas, HMO isn't available to me as a DirecTiVo user. :(

[DrStrange]

Large Tivo plug in this morning's Ellen. She had a viewer on today for reasons not worth going into, and the viewer, who said she taped the show mentioned she was going to buy a Tivo because she'd missed three episodes. Ellen told her she didn't have to, and produced a bow-topped 80-hour Tivo box. All staged obviously, but Ellen lavished praise on Tivo and continued to chat for another minute with the bright orange box still on her lap.

[HomeBoxOffice]

I saw that - great plug for TiVo. Especially because the daytime possibilites of TiVo for daytime tv fans are limitless. Think about all the free time you would have if you didn't have to stay home to watch All My Children and Ellen, and Oprah every day!!

Great placement.

[Stesmo]

Found through the website ObscureStore for today, there is a positive article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on DVRs/TiVo (for TimeWarner cable boxes). I'd give you a link, but I'm not allowed by board policy. The article was by Eugene Kane and is at JSOnline dot com.


Steve

[Fustanella]

Originally posted by DrStrange
All staged obviously, but Ellen lavished praise on Tivo

Which begs the obvious question of whether or not her TiVo thinks she's gay. :)

[thenightfly42]

Originally posted by TiVoPony
I think everyone should record Oprah today. So a little birdie told me...

Pony
The birdie didn't tell me in time. So, what was on Oprah?

[kitsap]

There was an amazing remodel of a Minnesota basement. It went from "ugliest room in the USA" to something quite remarkable. Of course, the fabulous entertainment center included a Tivo. The lucky homeowners were all, like, "Oooo! Tivo!!!!" :) Later, the guy got so excited, he proposed to his girlfriend.

[fonamna]

I heard the TiVo sounds one night while my wife was watch TV and noticed that is was the program.(I have the sounds disabled) She was watching Newlyweds:Nick and Jessica.

[Dajad]

Originally posted by HomeBoxOffice
I saw that - great plug for TiVo. Especially because the daytime possibilites of TiVo for daytime tv fans are limitless. Think about all the free time you would have if you didn't have to stay home to watch All My Children and Ellen, and Oprah every day!!

Great placement.

Well, the first of these with Tim Robbins, I thought, was a legit, by-the-by conversation. This one was CLEARLY a plant ... like Howard Stern & Oprah before her, TiVo is clearly sponsoring the Ellen show. Great idea, I just wish they wouldn't be trying to bamboozle us into making it look like it is spontaneous and not planned ... Ellen is NOT good on being a shill for products.

That said, she's been a shill for several hundred products in her first few weeks of the show ... you name it, she's promoting it. Quite surprising. But, my TiVo still records Ellen because I think she's very funny when she's spontaneous and just being her self.

...Dale

[DrStrange]

Alicia Silverstone was on last nights Conan. One of his pre-scripted talking points started with mentioning that Alicia didn't watch much TV until she got Tivo (as also mentioned here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=131088)). As PR for Tivo it sort of went downhill from there. After Conans "I don't know how many here have Tivo" got only a tiny smattering of applause in reply, Conan and Alicia mostly groused/joked about the suggestions feature, of course never mentioning it can be turned off or that they don't cut into your disk space. Alicia even said of Tivo at one point, "why'd you tape that? You're wasting my tape time."

IMO Ill-informed Tivo FUD from celebrities who actually own one is not PR Tivo needs at this point.

[Flo]

I'm positive someone has mentioned this before but the ENTIRE crew uses Tivo!

They talk about it on their radio show as well as their E-entertainment TV show all the time.

I used to Tivo 2 shows of theirs a night BUT SB recently took an interest in Tivo awhile ago (which is awesome!!!) and I gave in (for awhile) hehe, we're discussing another Tivo/DVD Recorder unit right now (green thumbs up), so hopefully, I'll get my Stern back sooner than later...Flo

[Zevida]

I was reading my EW (Entertainment Weekly) subscription today and they had an article about how the Nielson ratings for young people (18-35) are down in most of the networks, especially the young men. The article mentioned that one of the reasons could be that Nielson does a poor job tracking satellite, digital cable, and TiVo users and that these devices are more commonly found being used by the younger crowd.

Elliot of Elliot in the Morning, the radio show on DC101 in the DC area, mentions TiVo all the time. He's always talking about how he's going to TiVo something or about how he TiVo'd something because he was at the hockey game. They even had a whole segment about it last week because someone sent him an email that said after 2005 DVRs like TiVo will be against the law. (Which is of course not true.)

[maki]

Originally posted by kitsap
There was an amazing remodel of a Minnesota basement. It went from "ugliest room in the USA" to something quite remarkable. Of course, the fabulous entertainment center included a Tivo. The lucky homeowners were all, like, "Oooo! Tivo!!!!" :) Later, the guy got so excited, he proposed to his girlfriend.

Couldn't help but notice that as well.. :) Oprah is often commenting about "TiVoing" the show, too.

[Blonde]

Yesterday's 'Over the Hedge':

http://www.comics.com/comics/hedge/archive/hedge-20031115.html

"Isn't TiVo Great?"

[alan]

Chicago Red Streak article on TiVo (http://www.chicagoredstreak.com/frontpage/mid-news-midtivo17.html)

I hope this URL works. It's another article on TiVo. I think it's a repeat to the last one that I posted, mostly because it seems to be on the same topic. I guess the Red Streak paper was a little behind in catching it.

[gtadell]

Just watched the NFL recap show on the new NFL network with Rich Eisen. He was interviewing the head of officials and talking about all the camera angles that they record. Rich asked him if they "tivo" all the shots? The NFL guy said "we tivo everything".

[ThreeSoFar]

Regis and Kelly Lee gave away ten TiVos today, to the Hunkiest Married guys that were on the calendar Gellman produced. 80hr units, WITH lifetime.

[grecorj]

Originally posted by gtadell
Just watched the NFL recap show on the new NFL network with Rich Eisen. He was interviewing the head of officials and talking about all the camera angles that they record. Rich asked him if they "tivo" all the shots? The NFL guy said "we tivo everything".

There was an article in one of the Boston papers last year (IIRC) about the NFL Officials using DirecTiVos to record every game -- they're constantly monitoring every game/every play for possible review/grading officals/controversial plays/etc.

[trainman]

Originally posted by grecorj
There was an article in one of the Boston papers last year (IIRC) about the NFL Officials using DirecTiVos to record every game -- they're constantly monitoring every game/every play for possible review/grading officals/controversial plays/etc.

There was a segment of "NFL Films Presents" earlier this season that featured this. It was odd in that they showed actual Fox and CBS game footage instead of NFL Films footage (because they were showing exactly what controversial plays and announcer comments the league officials were looking at).

What I want to know is if they ever have problems with games being blacked out on Sunday Ticket because the local affiliate is purportedly showing them, but they've actually switched to a different game. :D

[cybah]

Meredith Vieira mentioned that Star Jones had not missed an episode of "The Practice" when interviewing James Spader on The View because Star has a Tivo.

Star also mentioned that she would be doing some "Tivo Action" to catch James Spader have red spots from his glasses on "The Practice"

Okay I watch too much daytime TV.. heh

[jleebeane]

Slate magazine (slate.msn.com) has an article about why religious people oppose gay marriages. The article includes a TiVo reference in passing, but I thought it was interesting because it seems to assume the reader will know what a TiVo is. The applicable paragraph is:The other moral argument put forward by the world's great faiths is that homosexuality is "unnatural." God created man and woman with certain complementary capacities, and not to use them is an insult to the Creator. Sort of like getting TiVo but not learning how to use the record feature.
I'm not sure how I feel about the validity of the metaphor, but the TiVo reference is amusing.

(I'd link to it, but having fewer than five posts, I can't add a URL yet...sorry)

[lpwcomp]

On Wednesday's(11/19/2003) L&O, a female cop says something like "Some people actually like (the victim). My Husband made me TiVo his John Gotti vacation home special"

[ccwf]

As mentioned in the college football thread, there have been tons of TiVo mentions recently. (TiVo+football+30 second skip between plays=magical goodness, as more and more people are discovering.) These are getting to be a regular thing and perhaps no longer worth mentioning.
Two weeks ago, I think, I heard a radio spot from Goodguys plug a “TiVo Home Theater” combination.
Today, got an email from one of my credit cards with this http://a948.g.akamai.net/f/948/166/1h/cardservices.qrs1.net/0A/images/tivo.gif. (This is the same, generally available $50 rebate, not a new card-specific one.)

[dmdeane]

Not sure if this "counts" as a TiVo spotting, but TechTV's annual top 20 holiday gift list had the Pioneer DVD recorder/TiVo combo box as their #1 gift. Those TechTV guys sure love their TiVos.

[Tangled Puppet]

The Love Doctors (Radio Personalities in Florida) swear by it, and talk about it all the time on their radio show.

[Hunter Green]

http://www.theonion.com/images/320/image_article1915_418x447.jpg (http://www.theonion.com/3946/infograph.html)

[jnk27]

Matt Lauer, promoting Justin Timberlake's special on NBC, said he will be "TVin er TiVoing that thing even as we speak."

(Usage question, are you TiVoing something if your TiVo is set to record it in the future? If yes, does that mean you can unTiVo something?)

Anyway, Al Roker's repartee was, "Wow..her(sic) TiVo thinks he's a 12 year old girl."

[SRW]

Dunno if anyone saw this (a search did not return a hit) but the Sept. 29 Issue of Forbes Magazine had a front page story on DVRs with a great big Tivo remote taking up almost half the page.

Gist of story: "Ad killing gadgets will soon be everywhere. Can the networks survive?"

Not very compliementary to Tivo. Said that it was the cable companies and their non-Tivo DVR boxes that were the tipping point that could kill a $50 Billion ad industry. (Tivo too hard to use, too expensive. Cable cheap and simple.)

[cwerdna]

It was mentioned twice on Thursday's Nightly Business report when talking to the president of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. See

http://www.nbr.com/transcript/2003/transcript121103.html#story3

for the complete transcript.

Here are the excerpts:
"DRAKE: Television, despite all the questions about TiVo and viewing falling, continues to be the real engine of ad spending. ...

GHARIB: And what about the impact of personal video recorders like TiVo, where people can just skip through the commercials? How do advertisers reach their audience?

DRAKE: The challenge for advertisers will be to have advertising that's creative enough that people will not want to skip through it. And if you use the Super Bowl as an analogy, actually, the most watched portions of the Super Bowl happen to be the advertising. So if the setting is right and the advertising is right, people will watch it. If it's boring, then they're going to snap through it."

[dr_mal]

Letterman again last night, explaining to Julia Roberts why he hadn't seen her on Oprah:
I TiVod it, I'll get to it in a while. It builds up, you know.

[Krellis]

A CNN article on DVD recorders with hard drives mentions TiVo and the new Pioneer DVR-810HS and DVR-57H units.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/15/dvd.drives.reut/index.html

[Fustanella]

Ellen DeGeneres showed a photo of two folks who had TiVoed her show, dumped it to DVD and loaded it on their laptop for in-flight viewing. Her comment: "They were the pilots." :D

[DLSith]

On the 12/16 Tracy Morgan Show, Jimmy was trying to figure out all the tv shows he wanted to watch. So when his mom pointed out that he had three shows at the same time, he asked if they could get Tivo.

Just enjoyed seeing it on my new favorite family comedy (well, after Arrested Development, but thats a different kind of family comedy).

[Fustanella]

Potential TiVo-Spotting (v/o edition): on Celebrity Poker Showdown, about midway through, it sounds like Nicole Robinson's voice asking how good something would look on TiVo. Hard to make out, though, given the foreground discussion.

[Lee L]

I heard that mention on Celeb Poker as well.

[Shark73]

Dec 22nd issue of Sports Illustrated...Rick Reilly wrote about how great TiVo is and how he can't live without one.

[dansachs]

Hope this is late enough in the day so that it's not a spoiler!

Todays New York Times crossword puzzle (Wed Dec 24 2003):

17 Across: TV show digitizer (four letters)

[scottjf8]

A few weeks ago there was a mention at the beginning of ESPN's Around The Horn. The host (Max Kellerman) made mention of watching something over and over again, thanks to his Tivo.

[DrStrange]

Today's "Today" show, a segment on the best commercials of the year. No Tivo commercial was shown of course since I don't think there even were any this year, but there was a still of the AdWeek's cover that had a Tivo logo, and the woman presenting the ads mentioned advertisers being "worried about people with their Tivos tuning out commercials".

[DrStrange]

"Early Today", just now. A short segment on DVRs that opened with a big ol' Tivo logo and a statement that "Tivo becomes a household name". Talked about the popularity of DVRs from satellite companies and cable now playing catch-up, and mentioned a few of the standard downsides for networks.

Quotes:
"2004 is the year of the digital video recorder"
"Once a consumer gets a DVR typically you have to wrestle it out of their dead hands to get it away from them."

[mtnbkr1]

Linksys Website, how to setup networks -
http://www.linksys.com/edu/ourhouse.asp

Image of Tivo

[DrStrange]

"This is a cat. Please do not try to connect it to your wireless network."

Well duh. Cats are wired devices. They must be networked using CAT-5 cable.

[mtnbkr1]

Originally posted by DrStrange
"This is a cat. Please do not try to connect it to your wireless network."

Well duh. Cats are wired devices. They must be networked using CAT-5 cable.

:rolleyes:

:D

[pokegol]

TiVo mentioned in article about young men not watching ads:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0401020184jan02,1,3348906.story?coll=chi-business-hed

[bhaas]

on the Mozilla "firebird" prototype browser info page- they use TiVo to describe tabbed browsing.

...Tab-Browsing can be likened to a TiVo DVR with two tuners - record two programs while you watch another - but in the case of Tab-Browsing you can download many pages in the background while you read the first. TiVo has changed the way people watch TV, and likewise Tab-Browsing is a revolutionary change to the way you browse the internet. Mozilla Firebird brings you the simplest, most intuitive version of Tab-Browsing you will find.

[Fustanella]

Too bad Mozilla won't stay stable on my machines for more than a few days. I love tabbed browsing when it works. :(

[DianaMo]

Committed (somewhat Tivo related comic)

http://images.chron.com/content/chronicle/comics/archive/2004/1/6/Committed.826.g.gif

It is kindof gross. You've been warned.

[Azlen]

On tonight's OC, the father says that he will be glad when his sister-in-law leaves because she has crammed their poor Tivo full of "E's True Hollywood Story." He then goes on to say that she is "cluttering up the Tivo and a clear Tivo equals a clear mind."

[rldunn]

In this week's Sports Illustrated, Under Review section, Al Michaels is explaining how he prepared to broadcast NBA games for the first time by saying that he "filled up his Tivo" with NBA games.

[Frylock]

In an episode of The Screen Savers, I beleive Monday, the presenter from MacWorld spelled something and said that Tivo users would back up and see 4 or 5 spelling mistakes.

[TiVoed4Life]

on Saturday night's MadTV, in a skit with Nicole Ritchie and "Saddam Hussein', Nicole spilled the beans on the latest winner of Suvivor, and Saddam said something like "Why did you tell me? I have it recorded on Tivo in one of my palaces?!?"


tonight on the UPN show "Eve" they made a LOT of references - all in one scene, though. Nick is sitting right in front of the TV pressing buttons intently on the remote, and all you hear is a bunch of *bloop...bloop....bloops* then *boing!....boing! boing!* Nick said "Come on Tivo" Then JT asked him what was wrong. Nick turned to him and said "Is your name Tivo??" Nick then stated that he couldnt find a particular show he had recorded on Tivo. Shelly said "Oh. Did that come on at 10:00? I Tivo'ed Touch By an Angel...."

that was the end of the Tivo references

[CrispyCritter]

Time Magazine (on-line version) is now giving hints on TiVo usage! The link to it made the front page of cnn.com.

"How to program your TiVo — even if you can't work your VCR"

Time.com (http://www.time.com/time/techtime/200401/dvr.html?cnn=yes)

[rclayton]

Got through page 7 of this thread and didn't see this idea yet.....

I've got a Wishlist on my TiVo.....keyword: tivo.....who knows......

:D

[whoknows55]

Originally posted by rclayton
Got through page 7 of this thread and didn't see this idea yet.....

I've got a Wishlist on my TiVo.....keyword: tivo.....who knows......

:D


Have I shown up yet?

[JimSpence]

Cathy (http://www.ucomics.com/cathy/2004/01/18/)

[JPriller]

Originally posted by JimSpence
Cathy (http://www.ucomics.com/cathy/2004/01/18/) You know, with a set that large he's not going to be happy with the image quality coming out of a TiVo. Maybe he has a DirecTiVo.

[cello]

Oh wow. They need to get rid of Cathy before I catch up to her in age.

Shouldn't she be a senior citizen by now? Maybe if they aged her, she'd mellow out a bit... ;)

[mtnbkr1]

Originally posted by rclayton
Got through page 7 of this thread and didn't see this idea yet.....

I've got a Wishlist on my TiVo.....keyword: tivo.....who knows......

:D

Be careful with this WL! For those with DirecTv, D* has been known to run a 24 hour 'infomercial' on the DirecTiVo service, and your WL may pick it up, resulting in a very long commercial (for a product you already own!)
:D

[mtnbkr1]

Mercury News - Dan Gillmor

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001675.shtml#001675

[ZeoTiVo]

funny funny mention of TiVo in Sunday comics today
comic is Cathy no mention of the problem of TiVo to HD tv though

http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/ca/



GO PANTHERS

[Hunter Green]

I think TiVo was also mentioned in Cathy. Possibly also in Cathy as well. And wasn't it referred to on adcritic once?

[Austinj]

Caught part of the Newlyweds marathon on MTV (Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson). They got in a fight after he decorated the house, and it showed her sulking on the couch holding a familiar peanut-shaped remote. The shape caught my eye at first, then I saw those red a green thumb buttons. Sure enough, TiVo remote!

[Lee L]

In entertainment Weekly, they were wrting about head to head TV matchups and mentioned the Bachelor vs The OC on wednesdays and said, "time to upgrade the TiVo!"

[tomo_kun]

Originally posted by Austinj
Caught part of the Newlyweds marathon on MTV (Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson). They got in a fight after he decorated the house, and it showed her sulking on the couch holding a familiar peanut-shaped remote. The shape caught my eye at first, then I saw those red a green thumb buttons. Sure enough, TiVo remote! WHOA WHOA WHOA, hold on there, can jessica simpson USE a TiVo?! Can she even use a tv?

[rldunn]

Originally posted by tomo_kun
WHOA WHOA WHOA, hold on there, can jessica simpson USE a TiVo?! Can she even use a tv? Maybe that's the real reason she was sulking - she couldn't figure out how to use the Tivo remote!!

[jimmymilner]

Ellen and a guest (Breckin Meyer of "Married To The Kelleys") really gushed about how great TiVos are today.

[TiVoed4Life]

Watching another UPN show tonight "Half and Half"

Two friends (one female, one male) walked up to a brat(wurst) stand and the male requested "2 of everything. No Onions. I have a woman" and then the female said "Mine with Kraut and Onions. I have Tivo" :)

[michaelp95]

One day on Oprah, (my wife TIVOs it) she had the CEO of TIVO on. On the After the Show segment, she announces that everyone in the audience was getting a TIVO. Oprah asked the CEO if they were giving them the best one and he said yes the 80 hour unit. Someone from the audience asked if there was a service fee, Oprah asked him how much it was and if she needed to take care of that for the audience, he replied that he would take care of the $299 lifetime fee for them....Thats one day I wish I could have gone to see Oprah.

[grecorj]

Originally posted by jimmymilner
Ellen and a guest (Breckin Meyer of "Married To The Kelleys") really gushed about how great TiVos are today.

He told Ellen that "his and hers TiVos" was the key to a successful marriage.

Ellen cut him off and described how TiVo would record stuff base on actors/show types (WishLists).

I don't even think they discussed his show -- just his baby and the TiVos!

[jimmymilner]

Audio file of Ellen Degeneres Show

http://dishhead4.home.insightbb.com/

It's the second link at the top of the page.

[JYoung]

I was listening to the radio on the way home and a local radio show was playing, the Conway and Steckler Show.
They were broadcasting from the Staples Center during a Kings game and had fellow radio host, Tom Leykis come on for a bit.
Tim Conway JR. was raving about how great TiVo is for watching Hockey and other sports and how he was trying to get his father (Tim Conway SR.) to hook up his TiVo now for over a year.
Leykis spent a couple of minutes talking about how he has DirecTV and four TiVos (so four DirecTiVos?) and how he uses them to find shows and fast forward through stuff. He also opinioned that TiVo's advertising was poor for only fixing on the pause Live TV aspect. He also "mentioned" how there's a guy in Culver City who hacks TiVos, upgrades the hard drives, and gives an index card of the backdoor codes to the user. Leykis specifically mentioned the 30 second skip.
Then Conway let it slip that he has Dish network and a Dish Player! Leykis jumped on him, telling him that it wasn't a TiVo and Tivo was far better.

[trainman]

Conan O'Brien's monologue Tuesday night (paraphrased): "The Cartoon Network was showing 'Pokemon' during the State of the Union address tonight. But don't worry. President Bush has TiVo."

[dr_mal]

Letterman on Tuesday night, talking about some darn thing: "...or you do like I do, you TiVo it..."

[TiVoPony]

Mention on The Daily Show yesterday, and a mention on Tough Crowd tonight...

[njtaz]

There were a couple of mentions of TiVo on the OC last night again. Though I couldn't really make them all out one of them said I tivo'd leno last night.

[Marco]

On yesterday's PTI, Wilbon mentioned TiVoing back to back eps of Sex and the City instead of the State of the Union Address...

[Ramblnman]

Bad mention on Stern this morning. Apparently, his TiVo missed Smallville for some reason. Being technologically challenged, he had no idea why it was missed, so it came across as TiVo was at fault.

[Crash331]

On the OC Summer's new boyfriend said he TiVoed Leno, then Seth said THAT was why he wasn't funny, because he watched Leno. Later, Seth was trying to be friendly and said he also TiVoed Leno. Towards the end of the show, Seth told Summer he TiVoed the Daily Show and said he knew that Jon Stewart was no Leno, but come over anyway.

It was mentioned atleast 3 times in that episode.

By the way, next week is a replay of The Heights and a new episode isn't for 4 weeks! It's like the World Series over again! ArgH!

[windracer]

... from "Couch Potato" on the latest Wierd Al album (Poodle Hat), which is a parody of Eminem's "Lose Yourself" but all about TV shows:

"I watched Will & Grace once and now TiVo think I'm gay ..."

[murgatroyd]

Tim Goodman, the TV columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, often mentions TiVo in his column.

Today's article has a great piece on CBS Sunday Morning (whose tech guy is also friendly to TiVo).

'Sunday Morning' a little miracle of sanity (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/23/DDGHI4EPSU1.DTL)

Goodman says: "If ever there was a saving-grace TiVo show, this is it."

:up:

Jan

[MikeCG]

Originally posted by murgatroyd
Tim Goodman, the TV columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, often mentions TiVo in his column.

Today's article has a great piece on CBS Sunday Morning (whose tech guy is also friendly to TiVo).

'Sunday Morning' a little miracle of sanity (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/23/DDGHI4EPSU1.DTL)

Goodman says: "If ever there was a saving-grace TiVo show, this is it."

:up:

Jan

Couldn't agree more. Several years ago I asked (on this forum) what were favorite programs, and said I thought CBS Sunday Morning was one of the best, if not THE consistently best on TV. I have long had a Sunday Morning Season Pass so i can watch it without having to get up too early (i.e., before 8 a.m. in Chicago) on a Sunday morning. And, of course, I can skip those occasional segments that don't interest me, as well as commercials.

[bob330i]

In today's San Jose Mercury News, Personal Tech section (E), there is an article at the bottom about TiVo and the Weaknees upgrades. Nice little article for the noobs.
linky (http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7798247.htm)

[TiVoed4Life]

Last night on yet ANOTHER UPN show "The Parkers"

Kim said something about Tivo. I didnt hear exactly what she said because I wasnt paying attention.

[csyria]

I can't believe no one saw this before, but on KIng of Queens a person(He is Hooly's friend, he has a pug, figure it out) gets a TiVo and he invites Holly over to see it. It recorded suggestions like ice skating. He says that "TiVo thinks I'm gay!!!!!!" He tried to set it to suggest something else, but it still thinks he's gay. So at the end he just kinda accepts it.

It actually said the works, and it had screenshots

[DCIFRTHS]

Originally posted by csyria
I can't believe no one saw this before, but on KIng of Queens a person(He is Hooly's friend, he has a pug, figure it out) gets a TiVo and he invites Holly over to see it. It recorded suggestions like ice skating. He says that "TiVo thinks I'm gay!!!!!!" He tried to set it to suggest something else, but it still thinks he's gay. So at the end he just kinda accepts it.

It actually said the works, and it had screenshots

Shoould have done a search of the thread ;) Look here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=766326&highlight=King+of+Queens#post766326) .

[csyria]

How in the heck did I miss that? I read through the entire thread

I wonder if anyone has ever had this happen to them?

[TiVoPony]

Another mention on The Daily Show last night. :)

Pony

[kitsap]

Originally posted by TiVoPony
Another mention on The Daily Show last night. :) And I actually was "Tivoing the New Hampshire primary"!

[Fustanella]

Anyone else TiVo the monkey-washing-cat footage? :D

[Melissa]

Last night, on Dennis Miller's new show he mentioned that Al Sharpton (or one of the canadates, I forget which) was TiVo-ing American Idol while he watched the primary.

[trainman]

Originally posted by TiVoPony
Another mention on The Daily Show last night. :)

...and two hours later, and this morning, and this afternoon, if one didn't delete the extra recordings from one's To Do list in advance. :D

[dr_mal]

Again on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Co-host Fred Willard was telling Jimmy that he likes to TiVo only a couple of shows, but have fun with them. Jimmy mentions that he loves TiVo. Fred shows him what he means -- he has a copy of their Monday show, and Fred fast-forwards (green bar on the bottom of the screen) then pauses at a precise spot that has Jimmy's mouth half open or something. Does this a couple times, then they start having photoshopped freeze frames when Fred hits pause. The whole time, Fred's working a peanut and the TiVo sounds are heard and TiVo graphics seen on screen. At the end, they say something like "maybe we'll get a free TiVo" for that little plug.

[slow_poke]

Just got tivo this week and up and running yesterday.I say fred and jimmy messing with tivo. I went into the bedroom and told my wife to turn to ch 7.Then acted like we had tivo in the bedroom and i was controlling it with the remote.She was all "wtf". It was quite funny.:)

[tmesser]

Originally posted by trainman
...and two hours later, and this morning, and this afternoon, if one didn't delete the extra recordings from one's To Do list in advance. :D

It's all about the recurring manual recording. :) I gave up on having TiVo record them with a wish list, so now I catch the 12am (CST) repeat on a manual recording. Sure, I get some random stuff in there on the nights the show doesn't run, but it's a lot easier for me to flag.

[Breacagan]

TiVo was brought up as a way to discover new pop music on the BBC World Service program Analysis (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/analysis.shtml), broadcast 1/29/2004. The program is archived online for one week as a low-quality RealAudio file (see above link). The quotations below contain the relevant bits, including inaccuracies.

Program description:ED BUTLER : The Future of Pop Charts 29.01.04

The drinks company Coca Cola has just launched Britain's largest legal music download site. This allows people to record pop songs from the Internet onto their home computers for a fee. The sites have already proved hugely successful in the United States, and record companies are hoping that linking up with the Internet will rejuvenate the western pop industry. But will it? Ed Butler reports.

Starting at 8:17 in the program:Ed Butler: As a diehard chart addict myself, I've assembled one of my own as a guide to the latest ways that pop fans can catch the musical gems of the future.
Starting at 9:50 in the program:Ed Butler: ... check out number two in my top tips of ways to seek out the class acts, the new technologies soon to become available with digital TV.

Unidentified analyst: Companies such as Microsoft [sic] are working on things such as TiVo, which is a way of searching the television channels in order to find the programs that you want, so that you can enter the name of a genre or an artist, and you can actually just download a music video clip or an audio clip.
The best way to discover new music was surfing the internet, which I don't find nearly as helpful, although TiVo was better yet when BBC America was broadcasting Top of the Pops.

Oh yeah, a few of the music clips on the show were quite good in my opinion. They are unfortunately distorted in the World Service's low-bandwidth RealAudio stream.

[Hpirx]

Two mentions in yesterdays New York Times,
Circuits section; one in the Q&A column asking
about the diffs between PVRs, Tivo and Replay.
One in a later article about home media servers.
Mostly standard stuff.

[JYoung]

Originally posted by Ramblnman
Bad mention on Stern this morning. Apparently, his TiVo missed Smallville for some reason. Being technologically challenged, he had no idea why it was missed, so it came across as TiVo was at fault.

Howard was banging on TiVo again this morning because he fell asleep during the Super Bowl and didn't pad or schedule the shows after the Super Bowl. :rolleyes:

At least both Gary and Robin chimed in saying that they scheduled Survivor and the news and the show afterwards to be recorded.

[LordKronos]

Tonight on Monster House (the Sports House episode) at the end they opened a cabinet on the entertainment center and there was a TiVo in there.

[SteveWinNJ]

Leno Tonight Show 2/2. They did a Celebrity Trial Tivo spoof that showed the TiVo screen filled with stuff like "Michael Jackson Trial", "Kobe Bryant Trial", "Martha Stewart Trial"...Funny stuff!

[ZeoTiVo]

from http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/sports/football/nfl/carolina_panthers/7860336.htm

about the superbowl halftime

"Many local viewers said they missed the bare-breast incident, tuning out the halftime show out of boredom or distaste. But by Monday, the TiVos had been replayed, the news media had glommed on, and Web sites featured detailed photos."

[derekadair]

Humorous TiVo anecdote from Ray Allen (NBA player):

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=fan2fan/turner

[murgatroyd]

Originally posted by SteveWinNJ
Leno Tonight Show 2/2. They did a Celebrity Trial Tivo spoof that showed the TiVo screen filled with stuff like "Michael Jackson Trial", "Kobe Bryant Trial", "Martha Stewart Trial"...Funny stuff!

Yes, the 'Now Playing' list on the 'Celebrity Trial TeeVo' was a lot of fun. I need to go back and look again to see which trials were green vs. yellow-dots.

All I remember is that the 'Glen Campbell trial' was expired. ;)

Jan

[islander]

On tonight's Jay Leno, he said that he had gotten Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from running back his TiVo to see the Janet Jackson breast exposure over and over.

Kevin said "you should be used to that by now."

[DianaMo]

Evidently, Leno has a Tivo. I remember him giving someone else Tivo advice.

(You have to unplug it and try again) or something like that.


Tivo Links (http://dmoz.org/Bookmarks/D/dianamo/Tivo/)

[dr_mal]

Gilmore Girls, 2/3/04.

Paris talking to Rory about her relationship with a professor:
He TiVos Frontline so we can watch it together

[skanter]

Maureen Dowd's NY Times Op Ed piece mentions Tivo!

The son vowed in 2001 that he would be patient with cultural excesses: "I don't want the government as my nanny. I still have never understood why something as simple as turning it off is not part of the answer."

But here he is, the biggest nanny in government since William Bennett, starting a little culture war to improve his ratings. The F.C.C. asked CBS for a Super Bowl halftime tape to determine whether standards were violated. What, the F.C.C. can't pop for a TiVo? Next, the F.C.C. will ask the C.I.A. to provide satellite photography of the rogue bustier.

Entire article is here for those who are interested. If you don't know Maureen Dowd, not suitable for right-wingers -- please, no flames:


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/opinion/05DOWD.html

[ZeoTiVo]

Originally posted by skanter
Maureen Dowd's NY Times Op Ed piece mentions Tivo!

The son vowed in 2001 that he would be patient with cultural excesses: "I don't want the government as my nanny. I still have never understood why something as simple as turning it off is not part of the answer."

But here he is, the biggest nanny in government since William Bennett, starting a little culture war to improve his ratings. The F.C.C. asked CBS for a Super Bowl halftime tape to determine whether standards were violated. What, the F.C.C. can't pop for a TiVo? Next, the F.C.C. will ask the C.I.A. to provide satellite photography of the rogue bustier.

Entire article is here for those who are interested. If you don't know Maureen Dowd, not suitable for right-wingers -- please, no flames:


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/05/opinion/05DOWD.html

no flame at you -- but Maureen Dowd would do well to read the news every now and then, along with spout opinion on it. :rolleyes:

Turns out the FCC chairman himself owns a TiVo and had the broadcast on it, and rewound the incident himself a bunch of times. but when you do an official investigation you ask for the official tape.

PS drudge report has a closeup photo - with all the leather pushing it around it actually looks nasty - as in not pretty at all.:down:

[skanter]

Originally posted by ZeoTiVo
no flame at you -- but Maureen Dowd would do well to read the news every now and then, along with spout opinion on it. :rolleyes:

Turns out the FCC chairman himself owns a TiVo and had the broadcast on it, and rewound the incident himself a bunch of times. but when you do an official investigation you ask for the official tape.



Seems you got her on that one -- send her an email!

[cwerdna]

There was a mention today on Next at CNN. They talked about how viewership spiked up during the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction and how people used Tivo to watch the incident over and over again. :D

[Breacagan]

THE WEEK Vol. 4, Issue 143 (February 13, 2004)
Good week for:
Freeze Frame, as TiVo customers paused and replayed Janet Jackson's "costume malfunction" more than any other television moment since the device was invented.

[windracer]

Was watching the "Sports House" episode of "Monster House" and noticed when they opened the homeowner's AV cabinet to show him where they had hidden his receiver, etc. he had a TiVo Series2 in there.

[rldunn]

Today on ESPN's Sports Reporters, Mike Lupica (guest-hosting for John Saunders) was introducing the others and said that at the end of the halftime show and the end of the game, Bill Rhoden was thinking the same thing - "I wish I had Tivo".

[ChileHead]

Saturday Night Live had a skit last night with Lieberman saying he TiVo'd the Janet Jackson bit.

[kettledrum]

Today on the game show Pyramid hosted by Donny Osmond, there was a great plug for TiVo.

NFL player Jim Finn and actress Rosa Blasi were on and Donny stopped partway through the show and he said, "I want to find out something about you that you love to do together."

Jim said, "Basically watch as much TV as we can in the shortest amount of time with the TiVo."

And Rosa said, "Yeah, the third person in our relationship: me, Jim, and the TiVo."

Then Donny said, "I love TiVo. Absolutely, the best thing invented."

I thought it was a great plug.

[kettledrum]

Today on the game show Pyramid hosted by Donny Osmond, there was a great plug for TiVo.

NFL player and actress Rosa Blasi were on and Donny stopped partway through the show and he said, "I want to find out something about you that you love to do together."

Jim said, "Basically watch as much TV as we can in the shortest amount of time with the TiVo."

And Rosa said, "Yeah, the third person in our relationship: me, Jim, and the TiVo."

Then Donny said, "I love TiVo. Absolutely, the best thing invented."

I thought it was a great plug.

[Philosofy]

Last night on the 10:00 ABC 7 News they had a piece on TiVo.

[tarmbrecht]

On The Tonight Show they had the "Celebrity Trial Teevo" to see every trial that you wanted to watch. I guess you would need the dual tuners LOL.

[TivoGeezer]

Today's Norm comic strip (http://www.thenorm.com/strips/strips.php)Here's an idea for a new start-up company. An electronic device implanted in your brain that allows you to skip the parts of life that you don't want to deal with (and maybe even rewind the parts you like). Maybe it's not a start-up company, maybe it's just a biotech division of TiVo.

[DrStrange]

Very trivial mention in Washington Post story (page 3, near the bottom) about Google, but the lack of any explantion of the Tivo feature they're talking about shows how ubiquitous Tivos name and what it does has become.

"Imagine a version of Google that's got a bit of TiVo in it: It doesn't require you to pose a query. It already knows! It's one step ahead of you. It has learned your habits and thought processes and interests."

[DianaMo]

Longshot here.

Any chance that box on top of the tv is a Tivo?

http://images.chron.com/content/chronicle/comics/archive/2004/2/17/Foxtrot.340.g.gif

[slow_poke]

Saw on [H]ardocp a link to wired for an article 'bout HD TiVo.:up:

[Hunter Green]

William Katt Programs Own Name Into TiVo
LOS ANGELES—Sources close to William Katt said Monday that the Greatest American Hero star has his own name programmed into his TiVo digital video recorder. "Bill gets really excited when he comes home and finds one of his 7th Heaven episodes or sees that he's caught House IV on Cinemax," friend Ray Morris said. "Maybe he does it so he knows to watch for a residual check." Morris said Katt also frequently scans his listing on the Internet Movie Database for errors.

- The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/), Volume 4 Issue 7

[TivoGeezer]

Dilbert's pointy-haired boss does not mention Tivo directly but does say he has a "DVR".

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20012199940218.gif

[ThreeSoFar]

Another funny final frame to this would have been "The only thing I know how to run is the TiVo."
Originally posted by TivoGeezer
Dilbert's pointy-haired boss does not mention Tivo directly but does say he has a "DVR".

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert20012199940218.gif

[PaulaBerge]

People magazine, 2-23-04, page 35

Prime Time Bandits
(article about shows starting early/ending late)

"They've given splitting headaches to those sweet handmaidens of TV technology, the VCR and her younger sister TiVo."

[TivoGeezer]

During the Nextel Cup race yesterday, they were talking about the fantasic video and computer setup that the 12 and 2 teams had to work with. They were showing their "war-wagon" and discussing all of the video feeds they had and that they all went into an "Industrial Sized Tivo". Now I am not sure if this was really a Tivo or some kind of professional DVR, but they said "Tivo" on the air.

[JimSpence]

Cathy (http://www.ucomics.com/cathy/2004/02/24/)

[csyria]

Didn't like the pun

[Monolyth710]

There was a nice TiVo moment during last night's Larry King interview with Sarah Jessica Parker. She made a big deal about telling Larry she called her hubby to make sure he "TiVo-ed" the interview...which was all about th much hyped last episode of Sex In The City.


:up:

[X-Files]

I just got a preview of a possible new magazine and the Pioneer DVR-57H and the DVR-810 are listed as the most clever DVD COMBO and there is a sidebar that shows how to upgrade the hard drive in your TiVo with a link to Weaknees.

[dr_mal]

Live With Regis Lee and Kelly Lee this morning, Regis is asking Kelly if she saw The Bachelorette last night. Kelly's response, "No, well, first off, I TiVod it"

[dr_mal]

Local news on KUSA this morning - co-anchors and weather girl are talking about The Apprentice. They cut to the traffic guy who says he just likes the way Trump fires people:I do like the way that Donald Trump fires people. That is my favorite part. I just TiVo that and just keep rewatching that.

[dr_mal]

Jay Leno last night, during the TrumpBuddy segment, you can clearly see a Series 2 TiVo in the background over Trump's shoulder. It was even recording something at the time :)

[JYoung]

Radio host Tom Leykis was again going on about TiVo on his show tonight.
I only heard about 10 minutes of it but I think he devoted an hour to TiVo about how it was a great invention.

[JYoung]

Howard Stern this morning ranted again how his TiVo cut off the end of the Academy Awards.
Gary and Robin told him he should be padding all live shows but Howard insisted that TiVo should do this for him automatically :rolleyes:

[ufo4sale]

It's not the first time he said this. He also made the same comment about the Superbowl.

[JYoung]

Originally posted by ufo4sale
It's not the first time he said this. He also made the same comment about the Superbowl.

I know (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?postid=1701558#post1701558) ;)

[dmdeane]

Originally posted by JYoung
Howard Stern this morning ranted again how his TiVo cut off the end of the Academy Awards.
Gary and Robin told him he should be padding all live shows but Howard insisted that TiVo should do this for him automatically :rolleyes: This must be the third year in a row he has complained about this - or anyway, that people in general have complained about the Academy Awards going long in regards to TiVo.

I remember news stories about TiVo users not catching the end of the Oscars back in 2002 when LOTR:FOTR was nominated (one of the reasons I watched it), and I know Stern has had his TiVo longer than that, and that he watches the Oscars, so this is not his first, or even second, chance to get it right.

What a maroon. First time, shame on him. Second time, shame on him. Third time, shame on him. Repeat ad infinitum.

[GBaz]

Tonight’s "i'm with her" The main character was laying on the couch hitting a 3 second rewind button and there was a pop sound. Not the official tivo sound and only 3 seconds but it was a knock off of a tivo.

[weaknees]

OK - part of me says that Howard is right. TiVo is a very smart, mature, sophisticated box, so couldn't it recommend padding shows that it knows will run overtime? Maybe it wouldn't do it for you, but just put a message somewhere that says "This typically runs long - maybe pad it!"

But this Oscar issue with TiVo has been around for a while - here's a link from a couple of years back:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020408ta_talk_friend

Michael

[dmdeane]

Originally posted by weaknees
OK - part of me says that Howard is right. TiVo is a very smart, mature, sophisticated box, so couldn't it recommend padding shows that it knows will run overtime? Maybe it wouldn't do it for you, but just put a message somewhere that says "This typically runs long - maybe pad it!"Why not have TiVo give you a back rub as well? :)

If TiVo started giving you special messages about the Oscar maybe running long, you will hear complaints from 1) those who don't care about the Oscars who don't want to know/don't want TiVo to waste effort on this, and 2) those who complain that TiVo isn't providing a similar service for other shows that run long. TiVo just doesn't have the manpower to manually alert everyone about shows that potentially run long.

There's a limit to what TiVo can do. It is inherently limited by the nature of Tribune guide data. You have to learn to work within these limitations; it's the nature of the beast, and isn't going to change unless/until the networks agree to some kind of live updates to their recording schedule, and even if that ever happens, you still have the problem of conflicts. The only sensible thing to do is realize what kinds of shows are likely to go long (sports, Oscars, etc) and pad accordingly beforehand.

But this Oscar issue with TiVo has been around for a while - here's a link from a couple of years back:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?020408ta_talk_friend

Michael [/B] Yep. It's been around long enough for me to "get" it; Howard has even fewer excuses since he's had his TiVo longer than I have, and has been getting constantly good advice (year after year) on how to use TiVo properly to avoid this problem, and he still doesn't get it. Either Howard is really lazy and/or thick, or he's putting on an act.

[weaknees]

Agreed. But put me on the beta list for that back rub deal anyway.

Michael

[dmdeane]

Originally posted by weaknees
Agreed. But put me on the beta list for that back rub deal anyway.
On the other hand, to go somewhat against what I have just said, TiVo has in the past posted alerts about some scheduling problems; I believe they did it during the last Olympics when there was a last minute change in the soccer schedule.

TiVo could post a message reminding people that Oscars usually run an hour or two over time, but people would still have to chose to read it and react accordingly.

It would be nice for TiVo to do this, but people should have figured out by now to pad for shows like the Oscars.

Myself, I don't actually bother with padding. Rather, I schedule on the same channel all the shows that come on after the Oscars for several hours to be recorded as well; that way the TiVo never changes channel and records everything coming on after the Oscars, and I never miss anything. This method works for Sunday Night Fox during Football season so I don't miss anything from The Simpsons, as well.

[weaknees]

I did the same thing - even though it meant recording Barbara Walters.

TiVo did announce the issue when NBC moved their shows off the hour breaks - you're right.

Michael

[dmdeane]

Originally posted by weaknees
I did the same thing - even though it meant recording Barbara Walters.
I feel your pain. :)

[Hunter Green]

Hopefully when he gets it fixed, there'll be a more positive TiVo reference or two coming:

Real Life Comics (http://www.reallifecomics.com/daily.php?strip_id=1142)

Scroll down for his reaction to the reaction, too.

[pigbat]

Charlie Rose interviewed Bill Gates last night and Gates made a comment about Tivo as a hot emerging technology.

[Melissa]

today's espn.com page 2 has an article: "O.J.'s TiVo Log"
http://espn.go.com/page2/Although it still has yesterday's date at the top.
-M

[JPriller]

Originally posted by pigbat
Charlie Rose interviewed Bill Gates last night and Gates made a comment about Tivo as a hot emerging technology. Does that make a chill run up and down anyone else's spine, or is it just me?

[ZeoTiVo]

Originally posted by Melissa
today's espn.com page 2 has an article: "O.J.'s TiVo Log"
http://espn.go.com/page2/Although it still has yesterday's date at the top.
-M

it is a good spotting though ---------

OK it is an obvious satire and of course OJ never talked to the guy and of course there is no real TiVo log involved, but I would rather he not so flippantly act like it is an easy matter to get a personal TiVo log for somebody. What with all the hype over the superbowl TiVo stats anything that feeds the paranoid on this subject just makes me cringe.


PS Bill Gates having his eyes on TiVo technology makes me cringe as well.

[PaulaBerge]

Premiere Issue of Cargo Magazine

Cover says "Is TiVo for You? Beyond the Hype"

Page 116 and page 119

Has brief description of DVR technology and then compares TiVo and Reply to Cable and Sat DVRs to DVD Recorders. TiVo wins the check-list comparison.

They don't mention DirecTiVo specifically, it's hyped well though compared to cable DVRs. Says cable DVRs hold just 35 hours, no wish lists, can't send shows to other TVs, switching channels is slow and system might freeze.

[ZeoTiVo]

oh my God,
I did a Google (Internet Search ) on Cargo TiVo and came across this funny article on where ads are going now that TiVo/DVRs are making 30 second spot ads obsolete

http://www.nypress.com/17/10/news&columns/cage.cfm

[PaulaBerge]

OMG is right! That was too funny!

Actually he's right on about Cargo too, my 16 year old son ordered it, and I sat mesmorized for over an hour looking at it. Unfortunately they didn't put the TiVo article online, maybe they will later, cargomag.com.

[DrStrange]

Last nights Daily Show (which BTW is going through one of it's accurate guide data periods. We should probably send email encouragements). After an opening rant against Hardball Jon mentioned:

"I didn't see the MSNBC Hardball show last night where they discussed it,
I tried to tape it, my Tivo, my DVR tried to record it but it wouldn't do it. Not because of a technical malfunction - it refused on moral grounds. My Tivo drew a line in the sand."

[cwerdna]

Heidi was on the Today show this morning and she mentioned either she has a Tivo or that she Tivos The Apprentice.

[JimSpence]

TiVo isn't mentioned in this cartoon, but certainly is implied.

Reality Check (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/reality/archive/reality-20040313.html)

[TivoGeezer]

On The Ellen DeGeneres Show the other day, she gave a couple whom she had invited to her show (because the husband wanted Ellen to come to his wife's birthday party), among other things, a Tivo. I could not tell if it was a 40, 80, or 140 hour unit.

[csyria]

MacHome magazine

Comparison of IM products:

Did you catch the Gimore Girls last night?
TiVo'd :(
Excellent! Lets have a party and watch it again


Also an article about the EyeTV 200 and EyeHome products

[cwerdna]

On Nightly Business Report on 3/19, they talked about a company called ClientLogic which processes rebates for various companies. Tivo was mentioned as one of their clients.

[scsiguy72]

Last night on Average Joe: Adam returns

One of the twists in the show had all of the girls watching TV when the producers ran a promo for Adam returns. In the promo Adam is caught kissing many of the girls on their private date.

The girls were shocked and quickly grabbed the remote and backed up the show and paused the screen on each of the kisses to see who he was kissing.

It looked like a Hughes set top TiVo

[ronsch]

Last night on Pardon the Interruption on ESPN Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski made reference that he has a TiVo.

[Raj]

JOn Stewart (the daily show) always mentions TiVo, but a couple nights ago he had a guest mention it. Can't rmember who it was though.

[islander]

In the April 3-10 TV Guide in the "On Soaps" section, they profiled an actress who was half of the first lesbian couple on daytime TV. The photo of the two actresses kissing has the caption: "The kiss that launched a thousand TiVos"

[Bigg]

Originally posted by windracer
Was watching the "Sports House" episode of "Monster House" and noticed when they opened the homeowner's AV cabinet to show him where they had hidden his receiver, etc. he had a TiVo Series2 in there.
Darn, you stole mine... Anyway, it was hard to see. Along with the VCR, DVD, Receiver and HD cablebox. It displayed stuff on that sweet in-the-cieling 42" plasma!!!!

[trainman]

Originally posted by islander
In the April 3-10 TV Guide in the "On Soaps" section, they profiled an actress who was half of the first lesbian couple on daytime TV. The photo of the two actresses kissing has the caption: "The kiss that launched a thousand TiVos"

And that wasn't even the only TiVo mention! In the highlights for April 10th (the second Saturday in the issue :D ), they say "TiVos all over will be working overtime" because Janet Jackson is hosting and performing on "Saturday Night Live."

[csyria]

On March 20Th's Mad TV it was mentioned twice

Once by the old person saying she didn't need one, as she has a clock and knows when the best shows are on(never)

And when they had the "Gay Hulk": "TiVo not record 'Sex in the City!'"
(Coincidentally, it did record "American Idol," "Survivor," and "Powerpuff Girls.")

[islander]

On Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network, they run a set of white text on black backgrounds as a commercial... Last night, before Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a set of them read:

Where were you ten years ago on April 15th?
--
We were right here making Space Ghost.
--
That's right, ten years.
--
[No flowers please - allergic to sentiment]
--
In lieu of your beloved repeats
--
Next Sunday we will present something
--
So incredibly incomplete
So deliciously detestable
So tempestuously tepid
--
That we will only show it once.
--
Once.
--
[Gentlemen, start your Tivos]Just for the sake of completeness.... after Space Ghost, it said:So anyhow, like we were saying...
--
We're going to pull next week's SG rerun,
--
And feed you some raw chicken instead.
--
So "toon" in, or miss it forever.
--
We recommend both.
--
[Adult Swim]

[Susiemw]

Was watching Everwood tonight and the granddaughter told her step-grandpa something along the lines that "she was serious about the tivo" and he couldn't stick with his vcr forever.

Susan

[TBoons]

The May 2004 issue of Stuff Magazine has "The Most Amazing Things on Earth", guess what #36 is??? TiVo!!!

To put this in prospective, #38 is the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. TiVo is THAT good!

[MLR930]

I don't know if this was mentioned I didn't read the whole thread because it's too long LOL

Ellen Degeneres is always giving one away on her talk show.

[StanSimmons]

About 13 minutes into "The Help" on the WB (4/9/04), one of the hired hands was in the dog's house, which had a fireplace, a cashmere blanket and "TiVo"!

[ZeoTiVo]

from http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/12/music.uncensoredvideo.ap/index.html


Stephen Hill, a senior vice president for BET, said "Uncut" is for adult eyes only -- a disclaimer runs before the naughty videos air. "Any kid up at 3 o'clock in the morning, their biggest problem is not BET," he said.

That doesn't take TiVo and VCRs into account, but Hill insists that "nothing that we run on 'Uncut' is not seen in prime-time television."

[djhobby]

Today 4-15-03 on the Bob and Tom radio show. Tom asked Indiana Pacers star Reggie Miller about TV and he said he was addicted to his TiVo. He said he records alot of Judge Judy and CSI.

[trainman]

On Thursday night's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Shannon Elizabeth reported that she has four TiVos, two of which are in a closet and modulated (yes, she used that word) so she can watch them anywhere in the house.

Sorry, guys, she's married. (http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,10127,00.html)

[JYoung]

Law & Order on 4/14.
Green thinks he's got the case wrapped up and says that "....two cold beers and a Knicks game, I got two great seats center court."
To which Van Buren replies, "Well, I hope you set your TiVo..." just before dropping a complication in their lap...

[csyria]

On Celerities Uncensored 18, they said "Start Your TiVos" after mentioning something.

[dr_mal]

Letterman on Friday, responding to the star of "Cold Case"'s accusation that he's never seen the show:

"I've got them all TiVod. I'll watch them at the end of the season"

[tiptoe89]

From The Onion (www.theonion.com) dated 21 April 2004

Headline:

New AnTiVo DVR Only Records Shows It Knows You Hate

[ZeoTiVo]

checko ut the guy in the photograph

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/05/03/dvr.boxes.ap/index.html

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/ptech/05/03/dvr.boxes.ap/story.tivo.ap.jpg