What are you giving your mother as a Mother’s Day gift this year? Does your mother have several television shows that she just loves to watch? TiVo thinks that your mother deserves a TiVo for Mother’s Day. Enter the “Mom Deserves a TiVo” sweepstakes, and you could win one for your mom.
If your mother is anything like mine, she doesn’t currently have TiVo. She may ask you, “What’s a TiVo?” upon discovering that you have given her one for Mother’s Day. TiVo is the company that makes the world’s first Smart DVR. The device, and the company, are both called TiVo. The easiest way to explain it is that TiVo is a more modern version of the VCR that your mom might currently be using. It digitally records the television programs that you want to watch, so that you can watch them whenever you want to. It doesn’t require any tapes in order to do so.
In order for TiVo to work, your mother will need to already have a cable service and a broadband internet connection. Once you hook it up for her, you can teach her how to use the little remote that comes with the TiVo, in order to record her “programs”. If your mother is like mine, then you can expect to be used as tech support for the TiVo for a while.
You tell the TiVo what shows you want to watch, and it automatically records them for you, and saves them until you are ready to watch them. After a while TiVo can “learn” what kinds of shows your mother likes, and may make suggestions about other programs she might want to have TiVo record as well. Hopefully, she won’t think this little quirk of the TiVo is creepy.
Enter the “Mom Deserves a TiVo” sweepstakes by filling in your first name, last name, and email address on the TiVo website where the sweepstakes is mentioned. You could win a TiVo Premiere Box, one year of free TiVo service, and a TiVo Wireless G Adapter. There will be only one lucky winner, and just one very lucky mom who will be receiving this special Mother’s Day gift. You can be absolutely certain that your sister, or your brother, won’t be able to give her the exact same gift for Mother’s Day this year! The sweepstakes started April 27, 2011, and will end on May 9, 2011.
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