View Full Version : Whatdoyoumean it's not a TiVo?
Mark Holtz
04-23-04, 03:50 PM
From Yahoo/AP:
TiVo Faces Off With Flattering Clones
Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo (news - web sites). But she really doesn't.
The 33-year-old New York tax consultant has a variant — a digital video recorder offered through her cable company. She didn't know what "DVR" stood for until then.
"I thought DVR was Time Warner's name for TiVo," she said.
So, like many others, Baker simply uses the leading DVR brand as the catchall term for the new love in her lounging life: a machine that lets her easily record her favorite TV shows and watch them whenever she wants.
Full article here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&e=2&u=/ap/20040423/ap_en_tv/tivo_clones)
James_F
04-23-04, 04:08 PM
Shoot, I don't have a Xerox either!
TNGTony
04-23-04, 04:22 PM
What?
You mean I don't buy Klenex® when I get "Puffs"?
Some people still call refrigirators "frigidaires".
I often drink coke...no matter what brand. In North Carolina people drink all types of "pepsi" :)
In the 90s people asked for Word Perfect on their computers when they really meant a word processing program.
This is not a new issue.
Whether the folks at TiVo like it or not, Tivo is what people call DVRs. And like the article says, most people have no clue what the term DVR means! Tivo is now and will for a long time be the name used for this class of product.
See ya
Tony
DarrellP
04-23-04, 04:56 PM
I eat Jello and scrub my sink with Ajax also.
Like Xerox, Tivo also has the distinction of having become a verb in common usage.
"I watched a good show last night, but I forgot to tivo it."
Why, then, didn't "VCR" become a verb?
"I watched a good show last night, but I forgot to VCR it." :rolleyes:
Geronimo
04-23-04, 10:08 PM
Go open the frigidaire and see if there is a coke in there.
Mike500
04-24-04, 01:34 PM
The British still "hoover" the carpet.
Why, then, didn't "VCR" become a verb?
"I watched a good show last night, but I forgot to VCR it." :rolleyes:VCR doesn't roll off your tounge. You don't pronounce it, you spell it out. So it never was used like tivo is now, much to the same way you don't hear people saying that they will PVR/DVR it. However, you do hear people saying that they will tape it while 20 (scratch that...30 years ago?) people wouldn't know what taping a TV show was.
BillyT2002
04-30-04, 08:43 AM
From Yahoo/AP:
TiVo Faces Off With Flattering Clones
Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo (news - web sites). But she really doesn't.
The 33-year-old New York tax consultant has a variant — a digital video recorder offered through her cable company. She didn't know what "DVR" stood for until then.
"I thought DVR was Time Warner's name for TiVo," she said.
Considering her overwhelming "attention to detail" skills, I'm glad she is not my tax consultant. ;)
Bill T.
Many years ago Coca-Cola starting warning/suing restaurants that would not disclose they were not providing "Coke" when a customer would ask for a "Coke." The "Friendly" chain was a prime target and they had to say each time that it was not "Coke" is "Pepsi" or whatever ok...........>Here in New England, Friendly changed to Coke because of so many people not happy it was not Coke. True story. I was reminded of this because Subway is apparently changing to Coke - according to a friend who has one here, not just because of contract cost, but because of the requests for it. (At least the Subway here is changing - I guess I did not ask if it was chain wide)
Geronimo
05-03-04, 11:55 AM
Actually it wa their own proprietary Friendly Cola
Geronimo
05-03-04, 12:02 PM
Like Xerox, Tivo also has the distinction of having become a verb in common usage.
"I watched a good show last night, but I forgot to tivo it."
Why, then, didn't "VCR" become a verb?
"I watched a good show last night, but I forgot to VCR it." :rolleyes:
It is a lot easier to say "tape" than "V C R". It is somewhat harder to say I "Tivoed" it than I recorded it on the hard drive of my Digital Video Recorder"
She should stick a Post-It on the front to remind her ...
tampa8, all Subways worldwide are switching to Coke when their contract with Pepsi is up at the end of the year.
Friendly's Restaurant used to have their own cola as mentioned above, and used to mix it by first getting carbonated water into a glass then a shot of the syrup. If you knew someone at the restaurant, you could get a very strong cola by getting an extra shot or half.
The actual reason the Friendly's used to tell their customers that it was not Coke had nothing to do with The Coca-cola company at all, but it was just something that the Friendly's Company wanted to do to make it sound like you were getting something special from them, namely "Friendly Cola" instead of that regular stuff you can get anywhere else.
There are many products that have entered the language with names that are still trademarks. Formica comes to mind as one of most maligned along of course with the consumer products out there.
"Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, chip, chip... No Coke. Pepsi!"
NOW I understand more of that SNL series of skits.
jerry downing
05-05-04, 07:17 PM
VCR was the same as "Betamax" in the '70s.
Bandaid, Q-tip, Vaseline, etc... There are many.
garypen
05-07-04, 07:30 PM
The British still "hoover" the carpet. I often drink coke...no matter what brand.
Back in the 80's, I knew plenty of Brits who loved to Hoover the Coke.
tomatoe tomotoe, sat installers get called the cable guy all the time.
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