Once upon a time, keeping up with your favorite TV shows meant tuning in at just the right time, week after week. If you had to take a phone call or put a kid to bed while the show was on, tough luck.

Tivo's newest release of TiVo Desktop enables Windows Vista compatibility, DivX and Xvid support for transferring videos on your PC to the TiVo, automatic conversion of TiVoToGo files for watching ...

TiVo was co-founded by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay, who originally started working on a "home networking device." But in classic Silicon Valley fashion, after some market feedback they pivoted and ...