Replay Networks and TiVo both offer appliances that record television programs on command, saving them on a hard drive in the set-top box.

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And, according to the book, those are considerable: He can dash off ad copy better than Madison Avenue professionals, design a Virginia home in the style of Monticello and Mount Vernon, command a television presence superior to Bill Clinton's and recall whole conversations almost verbatim years later.

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These thieves are the number one revenue source for the NYSE, after the snack bar, the gift shop and whatever concession they can command from the television studios that have set themselves up on the premises to capture all the inaction of the floor and its dwindling trader population.

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