Tuesday, May 6, 2008

TiVo: a Current Form Of Interactive Television

Tivo is a brand of digital video recorder.It is a device that attracts television programming to hard disk storage inorder to view later.The main functions TiVo provides is that it provide television programming schedule,and a recording option based on this schedule,it also gets infos about the programs for the next two weeks,description of programs,regular and guest actors whether the programs are repeated or new.
Tivo recording programs based on viewing habits,called TiVo suggestions.Users can rate programs from 3 ways and are combined to create a recommendation,based on what tivo users with similar viewing habits watch.For instance,if the watcher likes the simpsons and Family Guy then another Tivo user who watched just the Simpsons might get a recommendations for the other two shows.

By Fady Naddour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivo

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