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A thread on a TiVo community forum points out that TiVo is managing to work ads into the video display. Having never used or seen a TiVo, I must say that I assumed there wouldn't be any ads on such a service. After all, the purpose of giving the user the ability to fast-foward through a recorded cable tv show is to skip commercials and advertisements. Of course, an advertisement free world is virtually impossible. Businesses need money, and other businesses need to advertise, so the logical exchange is everywhere. With that said, I see this as one more excuse to build my own TiVo (instead of paying a monthly subsciption fee).

For more information on TiVo's new popups, read the article at ZDNet.

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