short way to say you recorded something off the TV

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decide this once and for all, dear readers

Poll Results

OptionVotes
taped it 33
recorded it 16
tivoed it5
dvr'd it 2
saved it 1
pvr'd it 0


Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:00 (seventeen years ago)

i got it

ledge, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:02 (seventeen years ago)

stenoed it

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:03 (seventeen years ago)

recorded it, clearly.

I guess "video'd it" is now old school and redundant?

Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

chiseled it

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

argh i forgot that one!

WRITE IN VOTES FOR "VIDEOED IT" WILL BE ACCEPTED

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:05 (seventeen years ago)

torrented it

Ed, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:07 (seventeen years ago)

diveoed

blueski, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:07 (seventeen years ago)

mimeoed it

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:10 (seventeen years ago)

"Had my minions watch the programme, then they acted out a summary of it at my convenience in my private theatre"

snoball, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:11 (seventeen years ago)

i have never ever been able to do any of these things :(

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:13 (seventeen years ago)

though as i don't watch tv it doesn't really matter

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:13 (seventeen years ago)

i mean wtf do "dvr'd it" and "pvr'd it" even mean?!

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

"dvr" - digital video recorder
"pvr" - uh i don't know

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:14 (seventeen years ago)

...what is a digital video recorder?

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

personal... (No idea why)

Ed, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:15 (seventeen years ago)

xpost

Ed, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

lex, it's like a flint axe, but better.

Ed, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

A digital video recorder is a device that records digital video. The most common brand (in the US, anyway) is TiVo.

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:17 (seventeen years ago)

pvr is a bit like 'perve'. i perved hours of The Hits overnight so i can watch later and skip all the crap vids, which may well be most of them.

blueski, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:17 (seventeen years ago)

why don't you just youtube instead steve?

all of this sounds ridiculous

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:19 (seventeen years ago)

I would DVR "The Lex, the pinefox and Tuomas Show".

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

kids know what it is, lex, i wouldn't expect you to

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:22 (seventeen years ago)

this is what workers are for

conrad, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

youtube video isn't very good quality lex. it's like the 'radio rip' of video-watching. shame on you.

blueski, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:23 (seventeen years ago)

viacom's gonna fuck you up

DG, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

trying to imagine the house band for "the Lex, Pinefox and Tuomas Show" is like trying to do calculus in your head

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:28 (seventeen years ago)

calculus was the only bit of maths i was any good at!

lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

It's like four members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe put on a stage and asked to operate a bassoon, a grand piano, a trombone and I dunno a sequencer or something.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

startrek_amoktime_kirkspockbattletheme.mp3

blueski, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:41 (seventeen years ago)

It's like four members of a previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe put on a stage and asked to operate a bassoon, a grand piano, a trombone and I dunno a sequencer or something.

I don't know if this better describes The Avalanches or Basement Jaxx.

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

youtube is often dodgy quality, limited to what it has in it's servers and only limited to 10 minutes. Not much good if you've taped a two hour film.

Billy Dods, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:57 (seventeen years ago)

It would be Tori Amos doing her Lloyd Cole cover :(

Stevie T, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:08 (seventeen years ago)

Whither Sky+ed it?

(though I still say I taped stuff, even though that hasn't been strictly true for ages)

ailsa, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:19 (seventeen years ago)

Humaxed.

Alba, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:34 (seventeen years ago)

i tape stuff, just like i dial a phone

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

memorexed it

HI DERE, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:36 (seventeen years ago)

Saved it to my abacus.

Formerly Painful Dentistry, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:56 (seventeen years ago)

smashed it

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 13:58 (seventeen years ago)

Just watched it when it was broadcast because there's so little worth watching on TV anyway except the educational documentaries as I was saying to Jocasta and Crispin the other evening at the whist drive down at the polo club committee rooms sponsored by the parish council and attended by the bishop

snoball, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:03 (seventeen years ago)

only ever taped

"time-shifted it"

Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

"committed it to memory"

Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

what Granny Dainger sed. i tape stuff all the time with my PVR. posters to the wall, the mouths of crying children, etc

Alan, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:05 (seventeen years ago)

'magnetically encoded onto steel strips'

Ste, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:06 (seventeen years ago)

my mum always used to say 'photocopied' it.

jel --, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:07 (seventeen years ago)

I RECORDED IT ON STICKY TAPE AND RUST... I RECORDED IT ON STICKY TAPE AND RUST...

snoball, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:08 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

betamaxed it

mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:38 (seventeen years ago)

disintegration looped it

ledge, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:40 (seventeen years ago)

I'm embarrassed to say that I find myself saying "dvr'd it" quite often.

Super Cub, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

I said "taped" back when I had a VCR. Now that I've "upgraded" to a DVD player, I can't record anything from the TV, which means I have to watch things online instead.

jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:42 (seventeen years ago)

I say taped or recorded; the latter makes more sense as it's fairly universal regardless the medium. I have really expensive PVR I hardly ever use. I filled the disk up with crappy 6pm simpsons slots by leaving it on "record 6pm every night" for months by accident, and now I cant work out how to clear it all off. It has a shite GUI that makes no sense.

Trayce, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

Also, Lex's "goodness me, whats a tellling-fone?" shtick is pretty tired.

Trayce, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

chix

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

TOTALLY j/k

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

did recording stuff off tv used to be illegal or at the very least legally dodgy a la dling music, or is that just an urban legend?

J.D., Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

haha lex managed to pull both "i don't watch tv" and "i don't know what that is" in one thread

J.D., Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:34 (seventeen years ago)

You'll keep mookie!

Trayce, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

PVR implies that anything else, e.g. a VCR, isn't personal. Hence incredibly stupid name.

We still say taped. We're well aware that it makes us sound like nannas so we're looking for a more contemporary option. I don't like any of these.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:52 (seventeen years ago)

Hell I still say records even for CDs :/

Trayce, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

recorded it now and forever

Surmounter, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)

did recording stuff off tv used to be illegal or at the very least legally dodgy

I don't believe so, but in hearings before Congress, Jack Valenti of the MPAA did compare the VCR to the Boston Strangler.

Pancakes Hackman, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:25 (seventeen years ago)

"i missed it but i will be able to rescreen it at a later date"

omar little, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

taped it

deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:28 (seventeen years ago)

tivoed it

tivo'd

gabbneb, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)

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deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

and?

gabbneb, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:34 (seventeen years ago)

"fished this bad boy out of Lake Television"

some dude, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:48 (seventeen years ago)

my gf made fun of me for suggesting we "rewind" a dvd :(

J.D., Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

lol wtf is up w that

deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

what does yr girl suggest you do w/ a dvd when you want to go back to a particular part the dvd has spun past?

deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:04 (seventeen years ago)

"back it up"?

J.D., Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:15 (seventeen years ago)

http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/tape_dispenser.jpg

electricsound, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:17 (seventeen years ago)

JD
http://thenastyboys.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/chris-hansen.jpg

why dont u have a seat over here

(joeks but who are these people srsly)

deeznuts, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

tivo'd it

tivoed it

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:36 (seventeen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 51,000 for tivoed
Results 1 - 10 of about 118,000 for tivo'd

Thanks for playing.

gabbneb, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:38 (seventeen years ago)

internet users in 'shit at english/grammar' shocker

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:42 (seventeen years ago)

You'd think more internet users would've checked the correct spelling of tivoed in the OED, yes.

Noodle Vague, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

you'd think more people would be gabbneb, i guess

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:53 (seventeen years ago)

Whacking an apostrophe in a verb is probably valid in some mentalist form of English with which I'm unfamiliar but it's certainly an awkward way of going about things.

That, and we don't have a TiVo.

Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 10 July 2008 02:56 (seventeen years ago)

Technologic

StanM, Thursday, 10 July 2008 04:03 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Someone needs to update their style guide:

''The spousal arguments are no longer about 'I want to watch this on TV' or 'I want to watch that,' '' he said. ''It's 'you've had this thing TiVoed for six months and you haven't watched it yet. Can we delete it now?' ''
--NYT, 4/20/03

IN nearly every quarter of New York, the digital age forges ahead. Passive-aggressive e-mail is flung back and forth, sitcoms are TiVo'd for prime time anytime, and stereo, computer and television components are patched together in an orgy of coil hitherto seen only in anaconda mating season.
--NYT, 9/14/03

TiVo has been paid perhaps the ultimate consumer compliment: it has become a verb. As in, "Did you TiVo the Oscar show? I missed it," or "I've TiVoed every episode of 'The Avengers' ever made."
--NYT, 3/18/04

''As mass channels like television increasingly grow cluttered,'' Ms. Bessant said, ''and technology increasingly allows people to choose whether or not they even see commercials, how we market our company and our product is really going to be dependent on how aggressively and effectively we use elements that can't be TiVo'd out.''
--NYT, 7/8/04

Fans will have TiVo'd it, and memories, albeit bad ones, will be made of it. We will get past it, as we must in the never-ending news cycle.
--NYT, 11/24/04

However, the company has recently stepped up efforts to police just how its trademark is used in a sentence. Using TiVo as a verb, for instance -- as in ''to TiVo'' or ''I TiVoed 'The Apprentice' last night'' -- is forbidden.
--NYT, 12/13/04

''In fairness, I think we bring some of this on ourselves,'' says Merlin Mann, the founder of the popular life-hacking site 43folders.com. ''We'd rather die than be bored for a few minutes, so we just surround ourselves with distractions. We've got 20,000 digital photos instead of 10 we treasure. We have more TV Tivo'd than we'll ever see.''
--NYT, 10/16/05

And quiet is now the consummate domestic prize in the ever-expanding exurbs, where family members rattling around in cavernous great rooms and pursuing separate amusements — their TiVo’d movies, their pinging Xboxes, their YouTube-blaring computers — are driving one another crazy."
--NYT, 5/17/07

jaymc, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:12 (seventeen years ago)

"Replay'd it"

;)

schwantz, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

What none of you realize is that Tivoed and Tivo'd are the same word, and all those Google hits for Tivo'd come from the lesser works of Shakespeare

nabisco, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

(I did not include NYT blogs in that sample, just stuff that I imagine was strenuously copy-edited.)

jaymc, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:15 (seventeen years ago)

"Murder in my heart for the judge! Darnggg...."

Mark G, Friday, 11 July 2008 08:47 (seventeen years ago)

However, the company has recently stepped up efforts to police just how its trademark is used in a sentence. Using TiVo as a verb, for instance -- as in ''to TiVo'' or ''I TiVoed 'The Apprentice' last night'' -- is forbidden.

Is it just me or does this seem idiotic? Surely Google is happy about people using their name as a verb.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

But nabisco - what about the capitalization?

Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

Tracer, Photoshop did the same thing - attempted to prevent people from saying "I photoshopped that picture", suggested alternatives such as "I digitally manipulated that photograph using PhotoshopTM".

emil.y, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:48 (seventeen years ago)

I can KIND of understand that though since it can have slightly negative connotation

Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 11:12 (seventeen years ago)

I just hooveredTM the room...

snoball, Friday, 11 July 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

I think Tivo wanted to avoid being the name associated with digital recording which is viewed as bad by the TV industry as it gives people the ability to skip ads.

Jarlrmai, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:17 (seventeen years ago)

They should have thought of that before inventing the most popular digital recorder in the world!

Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:24 (seventeen years ago)

doesn't it have something to do with possibly losing their trademark status? cf. kleenex and xerox and iirc google being nervous about the same thing. i wonder if it's ever actually happened

tremendoid, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)


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