But TiVo succeeded in winning Hollywood’s heart because it was a great product. The DVR service, which sought to replace the clunky VCR, enabled you to pause live TV and record 80 hours of ...

One such TiVo fanatic is [Gavan McGregor], who recently tried to put a TiVo Series 3 recorder into service ... placed his Arduino a few inches away from the DVR, and walked away.