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No time to watch your favorite shows? DirecTV’s TiVo is the solution.

You now have DirecTV … hundreds of channels and all your favorite shows. You also have a busy schedule. So what keeps you from missing your tv favorites? DirecTV’s Tivo!

One of the biggest advantages of satellite television from DirecTV is having so many channels available. This means you can watch all your favorite shows… that is if your schedule matches the network’s idea of the best times to air their shows.

There are bound to be shows on at times that conflict with your busy schedule. One reason you subscribe to DirecTV is for this programming variety so you certainly don’t want to miss it! Well, thanks to DirecTV TiVo, there’s no longer any reason to miss your show.

TiVo is a digital video recorder that allows you to record any show that comes across your DirecTV broadcasting. All you do is select the show from your television menu of what’s on and set it to record.

DirecTV TiVo automatically knows how long the program will be on. It will start and end recording at the right time. Finally, technology that is simple to use.

Do you remember trying to program your VCR to record? First you needed to know the channel and the start and end times of your program. Once you had that information, you’d pick up your VCR remote and enter the menu system. First you would set the VCR’s clock. Then you would set the time to start recording, the time to end recording, the station to record and how often to record.

You’d make sure a blank VCR tape was inserted, then hope that the clock on the VCR matched the time of the television broadcasts. Did you ever forget to power off your VCR after setting the recording? If you forgot this, your show wouldn’t record.

Recording Your Favorite Shows Made EASY

DirecTV and TiVo solve these problems by making it extremely easy to record your favorite shows.

With DirecTV and the menu that shows you what’s on, and what’s going to be on, you simply select the show with your remote and hit the record button. From that point on the DirecTV TiVo knows what to do. No cassette tapes to buy or replace when they get so worn out that all you see is snow on the screen when you try to play them. DirecTV TiVo records digitally onto a hard drive housed within the unit.

Another feature you’ll really enjoy with your DirecTV satellite and the DirecTV TiVo is being able to pause and even rewind live DirecTV programming. Once you’ve used it you’ll never want to go back to standard television viewing.

Let’s say you’re watching an interesting show, when suddenly you need to use the bathroom. You don’t want to wait for a commercial, but you don’t want to miss anything that’s going on in the show, either!

Just grab your DirecTV remote and hit the pause button for the DirecTV TiVo! The show pauses. You answer nature’s call, come back, press play and your show continues on right where you left it. By the time you hit the first commercial break after pausing your show chances are you will have caught up with the live show. Your DirecTV TiVo continued to record automatically even while you had paused your live DirecTV broadcast and while you were replaying what you missed!

For those of you that have a high definition television with your DirecTV satellite provider, you can even record programming in high def using a DirecTV HD DVR (digital video recorder). No need to compromise the quality of the image just because you have to miss the show when it appears live on your television. A DirecTV HD DVR will deliver the recorded programming in the same high definition that it would have played live.

Now you can watch tv when you want and how you want, with no loss of quality and no complicated programming. TiVo and HD DVR … the alphabet soup that keeps your viewing habits healthy.