Tag archive: DVRs

The ability to time shift and place shift the shows that we love on TV is a big deal to many consumers. The DVR is one of the most important electronic devices in many homes. Place shifting technology like the Sling Box from Sling Media is also important to many TV fans allowing them to send the media across the internet to other devices. Sling Media today announced the new Sling Touch Control 100 for TV service providers. The new device is a… Read More

Naysayers may preach that DVRs are the beginning of the end for television as we know it, but a new report by Nielsen indicates that the time-shifting devices have actually extended the amount of TV people are watching. Nielsen’s numbers show people watching television further into the night with DVRs, when prime time programming has wrapped up. The company compared its figures from November 2005, before it measured DVR homes and… Read More

Reuters reports a survey of 4,000 British television households conducted by French market-research firm Ipsos found that 90 percent of DVR users fast-forward or skip through commercials. The figure was even higher amongst the coveted 18-to-34 year-old demographic, where 97 percent said they skipped ads most of the time or all of the time. DVRs, or digital video recorders, enable users to record television programming to internal… 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

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

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