1999 Tivo

Shifts power from television to the viewers.

http://www.tivion.org/english/eindustryimplications/historyofenhancingtvexperience.html

In 1999 ReplayTV and TiVo introduced their own standalone products in retail that offered viewers advanced VCR-like digital recording capabilities via hard disk drives.

http://tivo.com/

Homepage (images)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764543369/

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