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May 15, 2026 8:08 AM

　　TiVo broadcast recording device Written by Melvin L. Williams Contributor to SAGE Publications's The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (2020) whose work appears in Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with SAGE. Melvin L. WilliamsAll Fact-checked by Britannica Editors Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Britannica Editors Last updated May 14, 2026 •History TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed by Teleworld, a company founded by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay that was later renamed TiVo Inc. The first TiVo DVR was commercially released in 1999 in the United States. The core function of a TiVo DVR is to record television content onto an internal hard drive, which enables users to play back (or time-shift) content whenever or however they choose. Distinct from the VCR, a TiVo...

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