To digitally record (a television show).
Used in a Sentence
tivo
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tivo.
Editorial note
YouView and TiVo in the UK are both entirely flash (AS3 for YV, TiVo was AS2 last time I worked on it).
Examples18
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To digitally record (a television show).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of tivo gathered in one view.
To have a show on one's lineup of shows to record.
Alternative form of tivo. [To digitally record (a television show).]
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for tivo.
verb
To digitally record (a television show).
verb
To have a show on one's lineup of shows to record.
verb
Alternative form of tivo. [To digitally record (a television show).]
noun
(television) A digital video recorder (of any brand).
Example sentences
YouView and TiVo in the UK are both entirely flash (AS3 for YV, TiVo was AS2 last time I worked on it).
PQ is not nearly as good as regular TV, you can't easily time-shift or pause (spoiled by TiVo).
If GPLv2 were sufficient against Tivoization than Tivo would have been able to be sued for violating it.
From a perspective of rights, liberty, autonomy, control, and privacy, a toaster and a TiVo is two completely different kind of devices.
The TiVo story feels to me like a particularly egregious case of non-techie misunderstanding.
I Tivo the McLaughlin group every week and occasionally even watch it when I have a hankering for talking heads.
I stopped watching Netflix on my TiVo and switched to only watching it on my AppleTV because of issues like this.
Where does a device's toaster-nature stop and its TiVo-nature begin?
Am I not using some programming fundamentals when I am using my tivo?
How do you wish the TiVo had worked differently?
I don't think the TiVo example is a good example though.
GPL2 hasn't had that problem present when it was written, and so tivo found a way to prevent practical modification, even tho they followed the letter of the license.
Quote examples
"The irony is that a world leading electronic voting system was developed by Andrew Tridgell" Of Samba, Rsync, rproxy, KnightCap, hacking Tivo, SourcePuller and a host of others.
"Oh, I'll TiVo that!" And how are they doing?
In the Tivo example, pretend you wanted users to be able to go up to the device and say "only record shows where one of the lexicographical permutations of the length in minutes is a prime number." The only way to avoid it is not to avoid it: to create a user-extension language with its own compiler, and a VM embedded into the program.
One of the coolest features is this: TiVo keeps a buffer of live shows on each of its tuners so that, if you opt to record a show that's been on for ten minutes, it can save it from the beginning, literally "capturing and digitally storing the past", once I press "record".
Proper noun examples
How this isn't worse than Tivo-ization (the reason the GPLv3 was written!), now how RMS/Moglen aren't screaming about this, I'll never know.
There are programming languages as varied from Tivo, Scratch, Python, Java, C, Assembly.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use tivo in a sentence?
YouView and TiVo in the UK are both entirely flash (AS3 for YV, TiVo was AS2 last time I worked on it).
What does tivo mean?
To digitally record (a television show).
What part of speech is tivo?
tivo is commonly used as verb, noun.