TIVO

Digital Video Recorder

TiVo is a popular brand of digital video recorder, a consumer video device which allows users to capture television programming to internal hard disk storage for later viewing.

TiVo systems function similarly to VCRs, but use non-removable hard-disk storage, and contain much more sophisticated software to record programs.

Additionally, programs being watched "live" can be paused or "rewound" to repeat a sequence just watched. Unlike tape-based recorders, a program that is still being recorded can be viewed from the beginning.

A TiVo DVR allows a user to specify which programs to record by time, by program title, and by specifying combinations of genre, actors, directors, etc.