Tag archive: digital video recorders

Wireless operators AT&t;T and Verizon Wireless are planning to introduce services which enable customers to program their digital video recorders using their mobile phones…that way, when they get home, they won't have missed a single moment of their favorite television programming. AT&T has announced that its HomeZone customers will be able to view listings and manage recordings via mobile phones, in addition to… Read More

By Michael Greeson, CEO, Co-Founder of The Diffusion Group The Shot Heard Round the World In a moment that sent shockwaves through the personal technology industry, Sonos CEO John MacFarlane told the BBC on Tuesday that he thinks the 'digital home' is still a decade away from becoming a reality. This pointed comment was picked up by hundreds of electronic and print publications… and not a day after I was speaking… Read More

The agreement allows entertainment content owners to benefit from greater distribution flexibility while maintaining rights protection on PCs, digital video recorders and portable media devices. Microsoft and Macrovision will roll out this functionality over the next year. For the entertainment industry to deliver premium on-demand entertainment in the home, rights must be protected to prevent revenue loss. With about 10 million digital… Read More

“TiVo, the best known maker of digital video recorders (DVR), said the upgrade is free, and will be available to standalone customers who own the “Series 2″ version of its set-top box. TiVo first announced the service one year ago. “Other generic DVRs confine your entertainment experience to the living room, but with TiVoToGo, subscribers can take their favorite shows with them to enjoy on business trips or… Read More

If you're still using a traditional VCR, now might be the time to step out of the 20th century. PVRs, DVRs and HTPCs are the new VCR, and if you aren't currently using one, chances are you will very soon. PVRs (Personal Video Recorders) and DVRs (Digital Video Recorders) are essentially the same thing - a hard-drive based set-top unit designed to record television shows digitally. HTPCs (Home Theater PCs) are computers… Read More

ReplayTV announced on Friday a new rebate program for its 5500 series Digital Video Recorders, countering Tivo's recen't 10 percent discount and rebate offers. From now through September 30th, 2004, purchasers of all new ReplayTV DVRs will be entitled to receive the following rebates: $50 for the 40-hour Model RTV5504 (SRP: $149.99); $100 for the 80-hour RTV5508 (SRP: $299.99); $100 for the 160-hour RTV5516 (SRP: $449.99);… Read More

The report, “Demystifying Digital Video Recorders,” published jointly by InsightExpress and MediaPost finds that DVRs create more opportunities for viewers to watch TV advertising than those who do not use DVRs. The reason for this is that DVR users watch more hours of TV and are exposed to more ads – even while they are fast-forwarding. The report suggests that DVR users watch about 24 percent more TV than non-DVR… Read More

Comcast agreed to adopt Microsoft TV Foundation Edition 1.7 software for rollout to as many as 5 million subscribers, with an option to raise that number at a later date. Foundation Edition 1.7 lets cable companies and some other TV providers offer an interactive programming guide, navigation tools and advanced features for capturing programs on DVRs (digital video recorders). Read more at IT World.

That's why new external hard drives that are being designed to expand the capacity of cable or satellite industry digital video recorders will likely have to subscribe to the same copy protection standards dictated by Hollywood. Maxtor Corp., the world's second largest hard-drive maker, announced a new 160-gigabyte external drive this week that will be built as an expansion for cable or satellite set-top boxes. Seagate… Read More

Quote from the review at Whining Dog: “The VCR is dead. The coffin has been ready for many years now. The first nail in the coffin was in the form of DVDs. As this disc format to hold, VHS rentals tailed off quite a bit (look at the popularity of Netflix today as indicator of how well DVDs are doing). The next nail and the one that will probably close the lid for good is the concept of Digital Video Recorders or DVR's. This… Read More

ReplayTV continues to innovate its premium-quality Digital Video Recorders (DVR) with the addition of Show|Nav, a powerful new viewer control feature. Show|Nav joins QuickSkip, Instant Replay, andJump Anywhere in ReplayTV's industry-leading JumpItâ„¢ set of viewer control features. Show|Nav lets ReplayTV DVR users navigate programs by segment, making it more intuitive and easier than ever before to quickly find and view precisely the… Read More

Featuring the two popular connection standards for digital media and peripheral devices, the D-Link DFB-H7 can simultaneously connect four USB 2.0 and three IEEE 1394 FireWire devices such as DVDdrives, digital cameras and printers to the PC or laptop for transferring, editing and printing digital content. The D-Link DFB-H7 is small enough to place in a convenient location such as thedesktop or workspace, so users can have access to its seven… Read More

In its annual filing with securities regulators, AOL Time Warner said that it expected to test the new service it has been secretly developing — known as Mystro TV — in 2003. At its core, the Mystro TV service would use a cable system to allow viewers to watch programming on their own schedules and with the ability to fast-forward and rewind, features that are built in to TiVo Inc.'s TIVO.O digital video recorders.… Read More

Housed in an attractive new portable wall-plug casing, the XE102 allows users to access the Internet through ordinary electrical outlets at speeds of up to 14 Mbps, eliminating the need to installnew wires for networking while providing a compliment to wireless networks that may not provide the necessary coverage. Netgear has improved this next-generation product so that it doesn't require any software configuration, and is simply… Read More