Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo.Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Laporte's Guide To TiVo Leo Laporte Leo Gordon Laporte (born November 29, 1956 in New York City, New York)[1] is an American technology broadcaster and author. Currently he lives in Petaluma, California, with his wife Jennifer and two children, Henry and Abby and a dog, Ozzy. & Gareth Branwyn Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic. He covers technology and cyberculture for Wired, Make, Esquire, the Baltimore Sun and other publications. Que Publishing 801 East 96h Street, #300, Indianapolis, IN 46240-3759 0789731959 $29.99 1-800-428-5331 www.mcp.com TiVO is one of the most increasingly popular electronic home entertainment systems in the market today. With a computer chip that makes video tape obsolte, and with the enhanced visual images that only a digital system can provided, TiVo is well on its way to making VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. video recorders See DVR, DVD-R and DVD drives. as obsolete as their BetaMax predecssors. In Leo Laporte's Guide To TiVo, Leo Laporte clearly describes the hacks, upgrades, and improvements that most TiVo users are likely to perform and focuses on the things that will make life with your TiVo worth living--things such as adding a CallerID display to your television, adding a new hard drive, remote control hacks that anyone can perform and adding Web capabilities. Featuring 432 pages of informed and informative "user friendly information, Leo Laporte's Guide To TiVo is a "must" for anyone seeking to maximize what their TiVo system can offer them. |
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