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Got TiVo? Take Control of your TV Viewing with TiVo
	What is TiVo?   While you watch TV with TiVo, you rate the shows you are watching by selecting a number of Thumbs. You can select up to 3 "Thumbs Down" and up to 3 "Thumbs Up". TiVo will use your ratings to customize your TV watching experience. Once TiVo gets to know you and what you like to watch, it will begin to search for things for you to watch. It will then provide you with two ways to find shows to watch.
First, TiVo will create a list of shows that it recommends you record. You can select any of these shows and tell it to record it when it comes on.
Recording an entire season of a particular show is a piece of cake with the "Season Pass" feature. For example, I want to record every Thursday night episode of "Friends" on NBC. So, I would search for "Friends" by title, pick the right time/channel, setup a few options (I'll get to them later) for the "Season Pass", and about one minute later I'm all set to record the entire season of "Friends". Now, I picked "Friends" as an example because NBC has been adjusting the duration of the show now and then. Normally running for thirty minutes, NBC sometimes "Super Sizes" the show to run longer. The TIVO daily call downloads these schedule changes and automatically adjusts the recording, so you won't miss those last few minutes of "Friends". :)

The "Season Pass" options allow you to change the video quality, how many episodes to keep, and other stuff, but most importantly allows you to tell the TIVO how to record the episodes. There are three options:

First Time Runs - Records only new non-repeat episodes. This option is good for when you're away on vacation and are afraid of running out of space on your TIVO.

Repeats & First Time Runs - Records new and repeat episodes without any duplicates.

All (with duplicates) - This is the setting I normally use. The TIVO service uses something called the "28-day Rule". This means that if a duplicate show runs within 28 days, that show will not be recorded. Now you're asking yourself: "Why would I want to record a duplicate show?" :) Sometimes networks change which episode they air at the last minute and the TIVO daily call might not catch this. For example, the 2002 World Series this year went to a Game 7, which aired on Sunday night on FOX. ABC planned to air new episodes of "Alias" & "The Practice", but decided to air repeats instead. If TIVO is not set to "All (with duplicates)", TIVO would record the repeats of these shows, then the TIVO daily call would eventually update the information to show that the actual new episodes of "Alias" & "The Practice" would be airing next Sunday, and TIVO would not record these new episodes because the TIVO thinks they are duplicates of what was already recorded the previous week. Hope that made sense to everybody! :) Finally, you also have the ability to prioritize all of the Season Passes you have created. So, if two or more of your shows overlap the higher priority one will be recorded.

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TiVo Features 
TiVo Season Pass - TiVo helps you set up recordings with a "Season Pass". This feature will record all unique episodes of a specified program. It will even catch the show if it is in a different time slot than normal. No more pre-empted shows or missed recordings because the timeslot shifted.. 

Network Showcase - This is a listing of some of the premier programming on some of the biggest networks on TV. 

Now Playing -  On-screen listing of shows you recorded. Each show is instantly available with the touch of a button on the TiVo remote.  

TiVolution Magazine -  A daily on-screen guide produced by TiVo's editorial team to keep you current on noteworthy specials, movies and television events.    

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