tivo
Speech parts
1. tivo - Noun
2. tivo - Verb
Meaning
To digitally record (a television show).
I think I'll be out to dinner when Michael Phelps goes for the gold. Oh well – I'll just tivo it.
To have a show on one's lineup of shows to record.
My mum loves to watch Neighbours. She has the series tivoed.
TiVo (plural TiVos)
(television) A digital video recorder (of any brand).
TiVo (third-person singular simple present TiVos, present participle TiVoing, simple past and past participle TiVoed)
Alternative form of tivo
Anagrams
Examples
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book.
TIVO executives stand up and say, 'Well, we're not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.' I mean, please.
TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.
A different model applies in Australia where the TiVo media device is bought for a one-off fee, without further subscription costs.