Just shy of two weeks ago TiVo announced their new ad system, Program Placement. Well, it looks like it is live already. User greg_burns over at TiVoCommunity.com has posted photos of the screens.

As I said at the time of the announcement, it looks like TiVo has done it in a very unobtrusive manner. There are no extra button presses compared to the screens without an ad. You actually need to make more effort to view the promotion, button presses for keeping or deleting the program remain as before. So it doesn’t get in the way at all, which is TiVo’s way of doing things. I don’t have a problem with advertising when it is done well, like this.

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I knew it wouldn’t take long before someone wrapped TiVo Decode in an easier to use interface. Or this one. Looks like this was first released a couple of days ago, I just picked up on it from PVRWire.

Discovery is airing a special Holiday Mythbusters episode tonight, and it is not part of the normal series so a Mythbusters Season Pass will NOT record it. I just caught my box not recording the 10PM airing, and manually set it to record at 2AM. If you miss it tonight, it is airing again on 12/9 at 9PM, and 12/10 at 1AM, and then again on 12/17 and 12/18. All times Eastern. Note that this is in *addition* to the regular episode that aired tonight. There were two hours of Mythbusters tonight – so don’t think you got the special because you got the normal episode.

Davis Freeberg found an old TiVo ad. He said it was rejected by the networks, but it seems familiar to me. I think I may have seen it a few years ago. It looks like an ad from TiVo’s early years.

I spotted it via PVRWire