So I just noticed something amusing about the Tivo logo. The colors on the letters “Tivo” — red, green, yellow, blue. Those are, in order, ANSI code sequence numbers 31, 32, 33, and 34. The reason I discovered this is I was editing my MOTD file on my tivo<->wifi bridging gumstix and thought I’d be geeky and change it to include ANSI colorization with the right colors for Tivo. And I bet you soup to nuts that the reason the colors are there in that order in the logo is because some geeky engineer at Tivo long ago did the same thing, ANSI-colorizing some rendition of “Tivo” somewhere, and it stuck when they made the official logo.

Good observation. But well, I guess there were lots of old machines with that system for colors: 001=1 for red, 010=2 for green, 100=4 for blue and then yellow would be red and green together 011=3.