The system beats the old-fashioned VCR because it's easy to program (it knows when your favorite show is on) and it lets you fast-forward through annoying advertisements.

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Pokki is a window that lists your program categories and recently used apps on the left, and favorite apps in a series of panels on the right.

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So in other words, in layman's terms, instead of going to your favorite 15 websites that you always visit everyday, you can have those favorite 15 websites send you the updates of their sites to your reader program on your computer.

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Watching a program at your leisure VOD-style, setting up a series recording for a new favorite or blasting it from your drive is just a click of the remote away on the DVR or one of its multiroom extenders.

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And essentially, it allows you to sign up or subscribe to for free to your favorite websites that offer this RSS technology, and then you download an RSS reader, a simple program that you download on your computer that allows you to receive any updates that you subscribe to.

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