The company TiVo, founded in 1997 for the U.S. market, it is awarded the honor of having created the technological category of Digital Video Recorder (digital video recorder), with the primary objective of improve the viewer experience. And at one point we will have to Believe. The company rose to fame for offering the user the ability to record your favorite shows by skipping the Commercial. But, in reality, the options that this provides Companies are much more complex.
Basically, the subscriber of TiVo services gets an appliance, which is connects to your TV and internet line. This apparatus, a kind of set-top-box, contains a hard disk that allows record from 30 to 300 hours of television, depending on the model, no need to use tapes. Works so much with television antenna such as cable, digital cable, satellite or any combination between these.
The appliance has a system Linux-based operation and stores videos in four levels different compression. Those who like to browse Internet, you can already find plug-ins and accessories to improve the capabilities of that operating system.
In addition, a good part of the disc works as a buffer for the last hour of transmission in live, allowing you to have all the video options back (pause, rewind, slow motion, instant replay), Available. This means you can go to the bathroom without running the risk that the physiological need exactly matches with the end of the thriller or with the goal it defines the world championship.
Wishes fulfilled
The company offers the services for an accessible monthly payment
and even has a trial promotion for 30 days, with return
of money to the user.
Among the outstanding services that offers the company is the WishList (wish list), which acts as a search engine similar to Google's, but which dives through television programming. Thus, one can record only the shows of your favorite actors, check the movies of a certain director to be issued in the month or skip any program that is not about Egyptology.
Another service is the Season Pass (season pass), which records all episodes of a series chosen for one season, with the exception of Repetitions. Online Scheduling is located on the internet and offers the user connection from any computer to arrange the recording of a program. Neither a change of schedule nor scheduling delays alter TiVo's efficiency. Searches are made from a programming grid pre-established that is regularly consulted through the internet connection.
And the company doesn't stop. Recently presented novelties such as TiVoToGo, a system that allows you to transfer the recorded to any mobile device (the teleaddicts, grateful); the ability to record the programs on the PC or on a DVD, and an interactive advertising system, thanks to which it is feasible to contact directly a advertiser who is on screen, and whose first tests the does with General Motors and Time's WB Television Network Warner.
Recently, some emerged clouds in the TiVo world. Several users claim that the company is curtailing the recording capabilities of certain programs to prevent violations of rights agreements author. And precisely around these copyrights the most important gaps related to this appear technology, which has not yet reached its highest degree of maturity.
Of course, TiVo is no longer alone in its segment. Its main competitor in the United States is none other than Microsoft, from UltimateTV, while others companies work with similar technologies in different countries, as InOut.tv or Carrefour.tv.
