You can, of course, pause live TV and skip around, but the scrub bar also shows up when you're watching recorded programs.

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Sling Media, a division of EchoStar, has announced two new Slingboxes, designed to let you access live and recorded programs on your home digital video recorder (DVR) from wherever you are on a computer, tablet or smart phone.

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It wasn't very extensible, and their whole partership with Microsoft to deliver content to PMCs never really panned out, but today TiVo is expected to announce an enhanced TiVoToGo service, which would allow subscribers to transfer recorded programs directly to their iPods and PSPs.

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For local TV interview programs that are live, or recorded as if they were live, I would still err on the side of shaking hands with the host.

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Tax expenditures distort our official data by reducing government tax revenues in the official scorekeeping, rather than being recorded in a manner consistent with their substance, as additional tax collections offset by government spending programs.

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