Tag Archives: DVR

Component Input HD DVRs Are Here

Posted on Saturday, January 5, 2008 by MegaZone

It has been lamented by many over the past few years that there are no HD DVRs available which can record from external HD inputs. Most models, such as cable and satellite DVRs, and even HD TiVo, record the digital … Continue reading →

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DVR Penetration To Hit 35% By 2012

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by MegaZone

ContentAgenda reports that DVR penetration will increase from 19% of TV households in 2007 to 35% by 2012, a net gain of 20 million DVRs, according to a new JupiterResearch report. The focus is, unsurprisingly, on the impact to advertising … Continue reading →

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New Chips From Broadcom And ViXS Point To Future DVRs

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by MegaZone

The CES press releases keep rolling, and both Broadcom and ViXS have announced new chips which have direct applications in the DVR market. This is particularly interesting to me as TiVo has been using Broadcom SoCs since the second spin … Continue reading →

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WeaKnees Blog Talks DirecTV HD DVRs

Posted on Monday, December 31, 2007 by MegaZone

The WeaKnees Blog has posted an overview of the different DVR options to use with DirecTV HD, the HR10-250 (TiVo), HR20 (NDS) and HR21 (NDS) DVRs. It is a pretty good write-up, but there are a couple of mistakes, or … Continue reading →

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SnapStream’s Monster Commercial DVR

Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 by MegaZone

You think your DVR is something special? How about ten tuners and 2TB of storage. Automatic indexing and searching abilities based on Closed Caption text. Easy point and click clip generation. Built in archiving to DVD. Access from any PC … Continue reading →

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