discipline and preference.

soon available to some TiVo users: let the chicago tribune's critic pick your television.

>>The recommendation service will be available only to the roughly 100,000 TiVo subscribers in the region surrounding Chicago. But Thomas S. Rogers, chief executive of TiVo, said in an interview that TiVo was in talks about similar partnerships with other print media outlets. The service, if extended to other markets, could create new relevance for local television critics, whose numbers have shrunk in recent years as papers cut expenses.

“It creates a connection between reading the recommendations and actually having them on your TV set at your convenience,” he said.<<