Sounds like you're describing TiVo suggestions. If the "little tivo box" is a round dot with the tivo logo in it, then that's exactly what they are.
It's one of the features of TiVo. It can be disabled somewhere in the menus.
Those do not tie up any space you may want for your directed recordings (where you tell TiVo to record something).
We have suggestions on. Once in a great while I'll go through that list and watch one, but we use it mainly as a space available indicator. If we see that folder has 50 items in it, you can expect to have room for about that many shows in future directed recordings. Call it 25 hours, at least.
It's one of the features of TiVo. It can be disabled somewhere in the menus.
Those do not tie up any space you may want for your directed recordings (where you tell TiVo to record something).
We have suggestions on. Once in a great while I'll go through that list and watch one, but we use it mainly as a space available indicator. If we see that folder has 50 items in it, you can expect to have room for about that many shows in future directed recordings. Call it 25 hours, at least.
