Don't you mean "Betamaxization"! [LWN.net]

Don't you mean "Betamaxization"!

Posted Jan 16, 2007 6:47 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine) by error27
Parent article: Tivo Healthcare (Free Software Magazine)

The only specific term I've ever seen for this is "time-shifting". Of
course we always used to say "taping" or "recording", and the latter is
still accurate.

I've never, ever heard the brand-name of a particular piece of recording
equipment used for time-shifting. I *have* heard "Xeroxing" for
photocopying, but it does sound dated now.

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It's been verbed, but not verbized...

Posted Jan 16, 2007 15:39 UTC (Tue) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]

Actually, the use of "TiVoed" or "TiVoing" is pretty common ("I was out last night, so I TiVoed the second two hours of 24.").

I don't think I've ever heard "tivoize" used except in the sense that the FSF uses it, to mean locking hardware against software updates.