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TiVo Syndrome 

When someone who has a TiVo or DVR system tries fast-forwarding though live TV out of a habit of viewing recorded programs.

Some may pause during a commercial and try to blow some time so that they may eventually skip through commercials.
What's she doing?

Oh, she's got TiVo Syndrome. She thinks that everything is already pre-recorded.
TiVo Syndrome by JEWSIAN. August 14, 2010
Related Words

tivo snooze 

the act of pausing live tv via TiVo... in order to be woken up when it catches up to live television.
(1st gen TiVo = 30min snooze)
"are you getting up megan? ok, i'm just going to tivo snooze once." zzzzzzzzzzzz.
tivo snooze by zzz zzz zzzzzzzzzzzz September 23, 2011

tivo moment

when something happens in real life and you think for a instant that you'll just back it up and watch it again.
when a funny,unexpected moment takes place and you miss it, so you think "I'll just tivo it back to see it again!" for instance, your at the park and you bend down right when a great play was made. so you try to Tivo it back to see it again.
I miss what they said and i had a "tivo moment " when i thought i'd just replay what they said.
tivo moment by Skyy wolfwood March 29, 2007

tivo timezone 

A time period that lags behind real time; that is created by letting the tivo build up enough to skip commercials.
Jim watches all the Raiders games in a tivo timezone. He turns his phone off to avoid any spoiler alert texts.
tivo timezone by NCdubmixer January 4, 2010

TiVo time 

The resulting effect of pausing and then resuming a live TV show using TiVo or a lesser DVR. This causes the viewer's experience to be up to 30 minutes behind the rest of the world.
"Dude, did you just see the Steelers destroy those terrible Cleveland Browns?"
"No man, I'm on TiVo time and the 4th quarter just started."
TiVo time by KevvyG January 8, 2009

TiVO Land 

The fictional time-period of which newscasters speak of in a pre-recorded television show which has been stored and is being watched.
John: "Shit! It's supposed to snow in June!?!? Whadafuh?"
Sean: "Naw, that's only in TiVO Land"
John: "Ooooh. Yea."
TiVO Land by sea-cow May 28, 2009