[Electronics-Talk] some TIVO observations

[Brad Hodges]

A few quick notes and observations as I am using my TIVO.


Pressing and holding the "A" button for 2 seconds activates "Screen 
Reader" spoken accessibility.

Pressing and holding the "A" button for 2 seconds disables Screen Reader

Pressing and holding the "B" button for 2 seconds activates description, 
if available

Pressing and holding the "B" button for 2 seconds disables description.

When jumping through some programs, to bypass commercials, a new upward 
tritone chime is heard. When this ends, the program content will resume. 
Note, not all programs appear to offer this feature. I don't know if 
there is a more advanced feature to jump over commercials.

There is an Accessibility option in the Settings Menu, but there appears 
to be no choice in the behavior of Screen Reader.


TIVO customer support, while courteous, was totally unaware of the 
availability of Screen Reader. The agent who helped me, was fascinated 
as she heard my system in the background, during our call.


I have not been able to find out whether these same features are 
available on TIVO boxes provided by cable operators.