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TiVo "Advanced Paid Program" Snippet
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A short clip of a TiVo paid-programming broadcast from the early 2000s, which TiVo used to send guide data and service updates to DVRs over cable TV before broadband was common.
Commenters cite it as a concrete example of distributing data over TV broadcasts in discussions of unusual data channels.
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