What is Enhanced Content?

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<Jason> wrote in message news:0pgt915s39bhf6hl4dpts9ifivjf5e5v3o@4ax.com...
>I was about to turn off the tv, when this message pops up saying
> it needs to change the channel to receive 'TiVo Enhanced
> Content'. I let it go, and it switches to some infomercial on
> discovery, which I have given 3 thumbs down previously. The red
> light turns on, so I investigate and it isn't recording to the
> NPL. It recorded continuously across 2 different guide slots, one
> of 20 mins and the second an additional 9 mins, both being pieces
> of the same infomercial.
>
> Can someone explain what it was doing?

Downloading the video found in the Gold Star menu items.

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"Seth" <seth_lermanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> <Jason> wrote in message
> news:0pgt915s39bhf6hl4dpts9ifivjf5e5v3o@4ax.com...
>>I was about to turn off the tv, when this message pops up saying
>> it needs to change the channel to receive 'TiVo Enhanced
>> Content'. I let it go, and it switches to some infomercial on
>> discovery, which I have given 3 thumbs down previously. The red
>> light turns on, so I investigate and it isn't recording to the
>> NPL. It recorded continuously across 2 different guide slots, one
>> of 20 mins and the second an additional 9 mins, both being pieces
>> of the same infomercial.
>>
>> Can someone explain what it was doing?
>
> Downloading the video found in the Gold Star menu items.
>
Usually advertising, what else would we come to expect?