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Philips predicts VCR demise
News Global electronics company Philips is predicting the demise of the humble VCR within three years -- coincidently announcing plans to launch its first DVD-Video recorder. The electronics giant says the release of the DVDR1000 signals the beginning...
[May 4, 2001, 8:13]
Bertelsmann and RecordTV.com plan Net-based VCR
News German media giant Bertelsmann and RecordTV.com said Friday they are in talks to develop an Internet-based VCR for the European market. Members of MPAA earlier this year filed a lawsuit against the upstart, charging that its Web VCR service...
[December 1, 2000, 15:23]
US Report: VCR-PC hybrid adds up to interactive TV
News The Californian company next week begins testing its ReplayTV service which allows users of its appliances to pause, rewind, and fast forward any television program. It additionally lets users record shows for later viewing.
[December 18, 1998, 10:58]
A Year Ago: IBM DVD ThinkPad to act as 'VCR'
News IBM will launch a range of ThinkPad notebooks in the U.K.in October which will enable users to plug them into a TV and use them as a DVD-based video player. The ThinkPad i Series range is equipped with a 2x DVD drive powered by either an Intel...
[June 8, 2000, 7:01]
IBM DVD ThinkPad to act as 'VCR'
News The ThinkPad i Series range is equipped with a 2x DVD drive powered by either an Intel Mobile Pentium II 300MHz or Celeron processor. There is no additional expansion box for TV connection required as connection can be made direct through a video...
[June 8, 1999, 15:20]
From VCR to IP Surveillance
White Papers The more end-users become familiar with DVR technology, the more they realize that DVR represents just one more step in the ongoing digital evolution of CCTV systems. Innovation continues beyond the DVR, and a viable, cost-effective alternative has...
[October 27, 2006, 1:00]
JVC touts VCR-to-PC FireWire alternative
News JVC said today it will launch products based on its new JLIP video protocol next month, shunning the much-touted IEEE 1394 'FireWire' bus standard. It will promote JLIP in VHS videos, camcorders and PC peripherals as a budget consumer alternative.
[October 25, 1996, 16:52]
RecordTV expecting legal trouble
News RecordTV.com is not sure whether its "free Internet VCR" service is legal or illegal. I would hope and assume that we would fall under the same exemptions that a regular VCR would. RecordTV.com, though, hopes to avoid iCraveTV's legal troubles by...
[May 16, 2000, 9:57]
A Year Ago: Mobile phone becomes a universal remote
News Soon, your mobile phone won't just make calls -- it will program your VCR, store your personal calendar and even let you buy things in the high street. For example, your VCR could include a simple WAP server, which you could access through your...
[June 19, 2001, 6:28]
Mobile phone becomes a universal remote
News Soon, your mobile phone won't just make calls -- it will program your VCR, store your personal calendar and even let you buy things in the high street. For example, your VCR could include a simple WAP server, which you could access through your...
[June 19, 2000, 9:15]
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]
TV Remote Controller (ARM/XScale)
Downloads TV Remote Controller is a Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002 application that uses your PDA as a universal remote control for TV, VCR, Cable, SAT, DVD, and other equipment. Listening in the background (you can use another application and control your TV...
[September 25, 2007, 15:58]
VCRs erased from the high street
News The store, which has sold VCRs for 26 years, said that DVD sales had damaged VCR revenue to such an extent that by Christmas the machines would no longer available in their shops. The VCR first hit the shops in the 1970s, when two companies (Sony...
[November 22, 2004, 11:30]
RealNetworks vs. Streambox continues
News He believes his Streambox VCR product is at the forefront of an entirely new business for the online media industry, similar to the home video rental business that sprang up with the advent of television-based VCR's.
[January 10, 2000, 13:13]
Tape heads off
Leader The story of the VCR encapsulates the life story of many technologies. In ringing tones of apocalyptic fervour almost identical to those used by the RIAA today against peer-to-peer technology, the VCR was denounced as an evil force that would lay...
[November 22, 2004, 11:35]
TV on a PC? We can do it - 3Dfx...
News On Monday, the company unveiled its latest product -- merging the company's high-end video card with a TV tuner card, which adds the ability to display TV signals, decode DVD signals, and encode MPEG2 video files from, say, a VCR.
[May 11, 1999, 8:05]
A tool
Blog Comment I generally follow that up with a few hypothetical questions - for example, "if your TV/VCR/Refrigerator/Whatever behaved the way your (Windows-based) computer does, would you just quietly tolerate it?
[August 26, 2008, 8:23]
Firefox phishing vulnerability discovered
Talkback As a example, one of the oldest clich'es known to the supposed technical world, was the flashing "12:00" on the VCR, and how in gods name could we ever get it to stop! bellowing throughout the night, all witnessed a miracle.a miracle that could of...
[January 11, 2005, 10:29]
Spector
Downloads Imagine virtually no learning curve - if you can use a VCR, you already know how to use Spector.HOW DOES IT WORK? If you can use a VCR, you already know how to use Spector.WHO USES SPECTOR? Install Spector on your Mac and it will record EVERYTHING...
[May 13, 2004, 7:00]
Digital TV 'too complicated' for millions
Talkback Page 53 also goes on to say that recording digital TV to a VCR is difficult, again there are other VCR products on the market that use SCART link recording. The Generics Group and the DTI have been disingenuous in this report.
[September 22, 2003, 16:27]
