Tuning Into TV Today With Tivo
Television has long provided entertainment to the masses and will continue to do so for ages to come. Being a part of every individual’s life, television is best known for the endless entertainment and informational channels it provides to its users. Providing minute by minute information of the happenings around the world, television is a reliable source of acquiring general knowledge and the information on current affairs. While television provides first grade entertainment, television shows and programs are not ever lasting and fade in the memory once the show is over. It is because of this fact that the need for recording whatever is coming on the television is felt and thus gave birth to the electronic marvel named TiVo.
Probably the first small digital video recorder, TiVo is also an easy to use yet very advanced video recorder. Right from the day it was first introduced, TiVo has gained instant popularity and became a worldwide hit among masses. Adding to the elite entertainment that is provided by a television, TiVo made it possible for people around the world to watch their favorite shows anywhere and at anytime. With this article, we will try to know some more about TiVo.
While most of us are aware of what TiVo is, many still do not know its use. TiVo is a digital video recorder or a DVR that can allow a user to record television programs into an external disk so that it can be viewed later. With its large memory to record hours of television programs, users can use TiVo to record everything from a baseball match to a full length movie. Having non-removable internal memory, TiVo also has advanced decoding techniques with which it can record high quality videos with better sound and lesser size.
Allowing users to pause live TV, TiVo can be plugged into a television and can be used to pause a live telecast on your television. TiVo automatically records the live part and allows you to play it right from where you stopped it. Once you hit the play button to play the paused television program, TiVo starts sending the remaining video it had recorded to your TV and thus saves you from the trouble of getting home early just to catch your baseball match.
Not to pause, TiVo also helps in rewinding live events and gives you an opportunity to repeat a scene for proper viewing. Being powered by a 50 MHz processor, TiVo runs on PowerPC chip and uses IDE controller along with specialized MPEG encoding and decoding hardware to have a high quality video in lesser time.
A 13.9 GB hard disk capable of recording up to 14 hours of video provides TiVo users with all the memory to watch and record many TV shows. Although the 13.9 GB version is popular, versions ranging from 20GB, 30GB and even 60GB are also available.
Advanced functionality of TiVo allows its users to set TiVo for recording a TV show at a specific time so that it can be viewed again. Not only a specific time, TiVo users can also choose program title, program genre as well as other things to uniquely recognize their TV programs and record them according to their needs.