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Sounds silly, but people pay Tivo a subscription fee every month and they pack that thing full of ads.

• Karunamon 13y ago
  The only ads on Tivo that I can remember is a single line item on the home screen, and this was almost always for some VOD service. There was also the thumb integration (you could thumbs-up some ads from either live tv or your recordings, which would pull up a new page with info about whatever was being advertised, occasionally a video), but this is about as unintrusive as it gets (a small icon on the top right whenever a compatible ad is played). Has this changed in the newer revs? I'm honestly curious.
  • smackfu 13y ago
    Yep. Here's the ad sales page which goes through all the various options, including showing ads on the pause screen and including ads when you delete a show and in the menu that lists your episodes of a show. It's gross. http://www.tivo.com/tivoadvertising/ http://www.tivo.com/tivoadvertising/ (Your ad blocker may stop that page from working properly.)
    • Karunamon 13y ago
      Auugh.. thanks for the heads up. I can cross a new Tivo off the list of things I want, then. Part of the reason I bought that device was to skip ads...
• uptown 13y ago
  I've had TiVos for as long as I can remember (> 10 years). I've always bought the lifetime subscriptions - beating the monthly fee many times over, and the ads are extremely minimal and unobtrusive. As far as DVRs go - I'm still convinced they're the best I've seen.