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Originally posted by Dan203
eBay
The name is shorthand for "Electronic Bay"

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Originally posted by Dan203

I'm not sure about this one.

Dan

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All very interesting, but there's a difference between asking what the genesis of a brand is and what it "stands for". My point was that no one is sitting around trying to deconstruct the "Cisco" or "Covad" acronyms (although, ironically, Yahoo actually did start as an acronym).

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TiVo stands for TV Your Way.

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Good answer....

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Survey says?

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Originally posted by rseligman
Why do people keep asking what TiVo stands for? How come no one asks what Yahoo stands for? Or Cisco? Or eBay? What makes people think that TiVo has to stand for something?

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I had not watched the DVD yet, now I understand the question better.

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Originally posted by TiVoPony
Asked and answered many times before, no poll required.

It doesn't stand for anything. It's just a fun word we made up.

Pony

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Originally posted by TiVoPony
Richard was a QA engineer back then, and I remember him taking me to task about the interstitial cap. IIRC, the concern was that people would never get it right, including our partners.

But there was something about those two letters, T and V, that seemed appropriate to emphasize.

Call us crazy, but it's worked out very well.

Sorry if it causes you any typing concerns!

Pony

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Good choice ! I like it better than TIVO.

Although now that I'm looking at it ....

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If y'all will excuse me, I'm going to see what the Bongo recorded from last night.

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I'm so excited, this is my very first post here at the TiVo community :0)

When I told my mom I was going to get TiVo she kept on calling it TiBo. You know how the "v" and "b" can sound similiar. So I started telling her to think of it as "television nouveau."

So in my mind, TiVo will forever be (phonetically) short for television nouveau even though it appears the TiVo peeps just made it up.

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Originally posted by spartanstew
Do you frequent the Yahoocommunity forums, or the Ciscocommunity forums, or the EBaycommunity forums? People occasionally ask what TiVo stands for here, because it's the TiVocommunity forums

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This is my idea,

TiVo was a spin off of TV, so to speak. Instead of having the "e" sound at the end of TV, they used the "o" sound. Then instead of saying it "Te-ve-o", they put in an "i" to make it "te-vo" or TiVo

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