Tag archive: digital video recorder

An old patent recently awarded to Microsoft may shed some light on the company's future ambitions regarding the Xbox. The patent sums up an idea for a gaming console moving towards an entertainment center, rather than simply a gaming machine. Back in January 2007, around the time when the Playstation 3 first came out, Microsoft was toying with an idea for a gaming console to pack a digital video recorder (DVR). The DVR application “running… Read More

The battle we have been anticipating is heating up. This isn’t the battle between the Xbox, Playstation, and Wii, nor is it the battle between Voodoo, Alienware, Dell, Gateway, and HP; it is the battle between PCs and game consoles. Sony’s Playstation still owns the market with PS2 sales setting the benchmark, but this is an old product, and the new PS3 has created more red ink for the company than most companies could… Read More

At the Reuters Global Technology, Media, and Telecoms Summit in New York, TiVo CE Tom Rogers said that the company is considering testing a variety of new pricing plans to increase its subscriber base, including a plan which would include a free set-top box. TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder market, and its name is still strongly associated with the ability to digitally record television programming, pause live TV, and easily skip… Read More

“The company confirmed late Monday that it released the first in a series of advertising features to a random and limited number of subscribers to the digital-video recorder service. The first test feature–a tag–pops up on the screen when a viewer is fast-forwarding through an advertisement. If viewers press the thumbs-up or select button during the half second the tag is displayed, they will be redirected to a menu that… Read More

“The digital video recorder company on Friday will give away 40GB Series 2 recorders to Comcast customers who bring their cable bill and a gift for The Family Giving Tree charity to TiVoheadquarters in Alviso, Calif. The giveaway will last from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., or until they run out of units, and will be limited to one recorder per household. Service fees are not included the giveaway, which is only for first-time TiVo owners. “… Read More

The company is also adding 10 fully integrated HDTV sets with CableCard digital cable-ready compatibility, and a high-definition-capable digital video recorder designed to work exclusively with its own IEEE-1394-enabled integrated HDTV sets. At the same time, the company said it would continue to support CRT-based rear-projection and direct-view products, although with fewer SKUs capable of analog-only input, and it will add more… Read More

Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo. But she really doesn't. The 33-year-old New York tax consultant has a variant – a digital video recorder offered through her cable company. She didn't know what “DVR” stood for until then. “I thought DVR was Time Warner's name for TiVo,” she said. So, like many others, Baker simply uses the leading DVR brand as the catchall term for the new love in her… Read More

Sony's PSX Playstation-cum-personal digital video recorder is not based on a 90nm processor as is widely believed but a 130nm version of the chip, Canadian technology analysis company SemiconductorInsights has claimed. “Sony claims to manufacture at 90nm, but the design rules are relaxed to 130nm,” SI says. “The e-DRAM trench cells are also laid out using 130nm design rules.” The company bases its conclusion –… Read More

The attractive silver Q system was widely considered to be one of the most desirable pieces of gaming hardware on the market when it first launched, and Nintendo was quick to latch on to the appeal of the Q by launching its own silver hued GameCube. The price of the system has fallen significantly since its initial launch in 2001, however, and it now costs a mere 34,800 Yen (