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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: TiVo Is Officially Dead. Long live TiVo! · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Everybody of a certain age remembers TVO,
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Speaker 1: the TV DVR system that allowed people to record their
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Speaker 1: favorite shows in HD quality for the first time. It
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Speaker 1: revolutionized how we watched TV. It even became a verb.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day. People would constantly be saying, I
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Speaker 1: t vote it. But I'm sad to report the t
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Speaker 1: BO box is officially a thing of the past. The
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Speaker 1: company has confirmed as of this month, they're no longer
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Speaker 1: selling any hardware devices, marking the end of a twenty
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Speaker 1: six year run. It's hard to exaggerate the impact TVO
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Speaker 1: had on the television industry. I mean it marked the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the on demand viewing era, which obviously led
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Speaker 1: to streaming. TiVo technology eventually became outdated, first with cable
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Speaker 1: boxes building DVRs directly into their own hardware, and then
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Speaker 1: with streamers taking over now. But if you're one of
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Speaker 1: the few and proud remaining TVO users, you'll be happy
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Speaker 1: to know TiVo will continue to offer support for pre
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Speaker 1: existing products that's direct from Hollywood.