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Is there a future for digital video recorders?
News DVRs perform the same function as video recorders, but using a hard drive. Although the digital video recorder market is growing steadily, the sharp increase in shipments many had expected won't come to pass, according to a US report out later this...
[October 3, 2002, 8:54]
Integration is key for digital video recorders
News Digital video recorders may someday be ubiquitous, but first they're going to have to disappear. In a few years, it's likely that all the functions necessary for using a PC hard drive as a digital video recorder will be incorporated into the...
[August 23, 2002, 6:27]
TiVo faces 'pause' button lawsuit
News TiVo, the company that makes the technology behind the digital video recorders sold by Philips, Sony and others, is facing a lawsuit over its pause button. TiVo recorders first appeared in UK shops in October 2000, and are sold on a lifetime...
[October 3, 2001, 14:28]
Consumer electronics giants opt for Linux
News Audiovisual gear for the home, such as digital video recorders, from Sony and other manufacturers could soon have a new version of Linux inside. The companies will collaborate to create a version of Linux that boots quickly and offers snappy...
[December 18, 2002, 9:32]
How Cisco IT Deploys Closed-Circuit TV Cameras Over the Secure IP Network
White Papers The system uses digital video and uses IP to carry the video signal across the network to digital video recorders in a centrally managed data center. Two years ago, Cisco used a combination of cameras and Video Cassette Recorders (VCRs) to monitor...
[March 5, 2008, 0:02]
Sony adds broadband to digital video recorder
News As consumers become more familiar with digital video recorders, shipment numbers and interest from consumer-electronics makers are rising, according to a recent report from research firm In-Stat/MDR. No one configuration of the various DVR features...
[April 4, 2003, 13:16]
Intel wants PCs to double as VCRs
News At the same time, the company is developing the Entertainment PC (EPC), a desktop design based on Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system, which manufacturers can use to create more entertainment-oriented PCs that come with...
[March 8, 2004, 8:40]
Sonicblue, TiVo settle patent spat
News Both suits were for infringements on patents dealing with capabilities associated with digital video recorders (DVRs). We believe our energies are better spent expanding the market for digital video recorders (DVRs) rather than fighting each other.
[November 11, 2002, 15:40]
Apple set to announce video iPod plans
News Machines with Windows XP Media Center can be used to record TV shows, similar to digital video recorders (DVR) such as TiVo boxes, and catalogue music and video. By incorporating both 802.11g and Bluetooth wireless capabilities, the device could...
[January 6, 2003, 10:19]
AMD targets portable video players
News Devices built around the Alchemy processor will be able to connect directly with digital video recorders eliminating the need to process the content through a PC. TiVo is working with AMD on its TiVo-To-Go project, which will let customers transfer...
[January 4, 2005, 15:40]
Alliance promotes networked digital home
News The purpose of the alliance is to develop standards and promote the use of coaxial cable to send high-quality video, voice and data between a variety of household devices, such as TVs, digital video recorders and PCs.
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
News Personal video recorders (also known as digital video recorders), which allow users to record television and temporarily pause live programming, represent a significant hard-drive market, along with game consoles and digital audio players...
[September 12, 2003, 10:45]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
News Sony, like some other manufacturers, makes DVD recorders that combine both plus and dash technology. DeMoulin pointed out there are plenty of older dash recorders on the market. Dual-layer DVD recorders slated for PC use are expected to emerge by...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Digital devices to kill VCRs?
News With sales booming, digital video recorders are set to revolutionise the couch potato experience -- offering such VCR-killing features as customizable programming features and hard disk drives to store TV shows.
[May 18, 2000, 13:53]
DVRs get stylish at CeBIT
News While personal video recorders (PVRs) have been available for a while, this is one of the first systems to look more like consumer electronics than a desktop PC. CeBIT 2003 sees the introduction by TerraTec of its Lancaster digital video system.
[March 13, 2003, 14:40]
Nielsen begins monitoring TiVo usage
News TiVo and Nielsen Media Research have developed software that allows the audience measurement company to extract viewer information from TiVo's digital video recorders. The Nielsen rating system for television shows is now playing on TiVo devices...
[August 6, 2002, 16:06]
Sonicblue revenue up 80 percent
News The largest contributor to revenue was the Go-Video line of video recorders, according to interim chief financial officer Marcus Smith. The ReplayTV recorders enable commercial skipping and the ability to distribute TV shows over the Internet to...
[August 1, 2002, 8:03]
CollaboraTV: Making Television Viewing Social Again
White Papers With the advent of video-on-demand services and digital video recorders, the way in which they consume media is undergoing a fundamental change. People today are less likely to watch shows at the same time, let alone the same place.
[May 29, 2009, 1:19]
Network Video Recorders
White Papers They're called Network Video Recorders or NVR5. As digital video recording capabilities improve, the systems that control cameras and store video have lagged behind. Fortunately, new hardware solutions designed specifically for the latest...
[February 14, 2009, 0:24]
Storage firms develop extra drives for DVR
News Hard-drive makers are thinking out of the box when it comes to digital video recorders. Many DVRs in the market already have one of these connection ports, making it conceivable that owners will be able to add hard drives to their recorders with...
[April 29, 2004, 9:05]
