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TiVo 2015 Year Review

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A lot has happened this year

TiVo® has come a long way in 2015. Cutting-edge innovations that we announced this year are now commonplace features that we can’t live without. To help you keep track of what happened when, here are some highlights from this past year!

Let’s start with a little lovin’. While swarms of E.L. James fans flocked to theaters for Fifty Shades of Grey on Valentine’s Day, we explained how boys become men right on their couches. A massive hard drive leads to a manly monstrosity of facial hair. A Remote Finder button keeps you on your A-game if you’re trying to end your Valentine’s Day on a happy note. And with the SkipMode™ feature on the TiVo BOLT™, there’s no better way to get things going than skipping an entire commercial break.1

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OnePass™ to rule them all

OnePass to find them! We kicked off the year with a binge-watcher’s soon-to-be best buddy. All the available episodes of your favorite shows, all in one place. Be it from cable or antenna or from Netflix, Hulu and/or Amazon.2 No matter how far we must go, we will find that one show for you. An absolute lifesaver when someone – say, your significant other – “accidentally” deletes that one last episode you needed. OnePass knows the truth. OnePass has your back.

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Summer streamin’

To start the summer right, we bulked out our offering with a few key apps. The addition of iHeartRadio rendered our music offering quite swell2. Just one more way to bump your summer anthems at your many house parties.

Photos, videos, music…oh my ride. The Plex for TiVo app expanded TiVo’s all-in-one approach to your personal media collections, so that you can go all out on a homemade movie marathon. As long as there are no videos of a miniature you running around the house naked. Embarrassing stuff.

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Your TiVo utility belt got bigger

We rounded out our summer trifecta with TiVo Online. Basically your personal butler that can help you manage your recordings from near or afar and give you one more way to stream recordings and live TV around the house. Just don’t expect it to tidy up that cave of yours. Maybe someday.

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How about these apples

We wrapped up the summer by pimping out our iOS app, enabling recorded content streaming on your home network from your iOS devices3 to your Apple TV via Airplay.

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From the Apple to the Fire

We opened up doors with our iOS app compatibility with Apple TV. And now we’re blasting them wide with this. Behold, the TiVo app for Amazon Fire™ and the Amazon Fire TV Stick. We gave Amazon Fire TV the ability to select which DVR to play from, set up streaming to the app, and to control your playback experience. Not to mention being able to watch your TiVo DVR recordings in home or remotely. Almost as good as starting your own fire on a deserted island.

And then this happened

September 30. Birthday of the TiVo BOLT™. QuickMode™ to watch your recordings 30 percent faster with pitch-corrected audio. Sports, news, reality competition shows – all of these just got a bit more digestible. SkipMode™ to skip entire commercial breaks with the press of a single button. So much power in a little green button. 4K video through Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video, YouTube and Hulu. Yeah. Enough said.

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#TiVoPrank

We got a group of 007 fans together. We gave them a private screening of Spectre. Then we pissed them off with not one, not two, but three commercial breaks at the climax. Many WTF’s were exclaimed that night. Two people walked out. One person even threw a bottle. But then we made them happy with a VIP party. So everything worked out.

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Show Us Your TiVo BOLT

To celebrate the coming of TiVo BOLT, we asked you to Show Us Your TiVo BOLT. Out of many awesome submissions, two winners stood tall and won $5,000 each. Best picture went to a psychedelic portrait of the TiVo BOLT. Best video/story went to a little something that just might be Clark the Shark’s claim to fame.

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WWE App

We added the WWE app. Because a little more John Cena in our lives never hurt anybody. Except the victims of the Five Knuckle Shuffle.

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And there you have it! TiVo’s 2015 in a nutshell – a very big nutshell. Thank you for being the TiVo faithful this past year. Stay tuned this year to see what 2016 has in store for TiVo!

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1 SkipMode feature is not available for all recorded shows.
2 Broadband internet connection is required to access and receive streaming content. Availability of third-party content from streaming sources is subject to change, and certain third-party fees may apply. For example, Netflix unlimited streaming membership is required (and sold separately) to access Netflix content, and Amazon Prime membership is required (and sold separately) to access Amazon Prime Instant Video content.
3 Compatible Apple tablets and mobile devices consist solely of an iPad®, iPhone® or iPod touch® device running iOS 7.0 or later. Not all recorded content can be streamed or downloaded to a tablet or mobile device (due to copy protection assigned by content provider and/or other technical limitations). Some recorded content can only be streamed/downloaded to your tablet or mobile device while you are on the same network as your TiVo BOLT/TiVo DRV/TiVo Stream (as applicable).
© 2016 TiVo Inc. All Rights Reserved. TiVo, the TiVo logo, the TiVo silhouette logo, TiVo BOLT, SkipMode, QuickMode, and One Pass are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. Netflix is a registered trademark of Netflix, Inc. Amazon, Amazon Fire, Amazon Prime, and Amazon Instant Video are trademarks or registered trademarks of Amazon com., Inc. or its affiliates. Apple TV, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. Hulu is a registered trademark of Hulu, LLC. YouTube is a registered trademark of Google Inc. All other company, product and brand names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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