Tag: DVR

Got too much money burning a whole in your pocket? While they don't mention the price, Bang & Olufsen isn't exactly known for being affordable. And this comes with a paltry 250gb….but hey, sure looks sexy eh!?!   "The 250GB drive will store up to 110 hours of standard quality or 60 hours of high quality (not high definition) content. […]

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes enlightens us to the latest technological breakthrough from those wonderful folks at the movie industry.  "The upshot of this is that if you have a DVD disc protected by Protect DVD-Video and you try to play the disc in a PC-based system using, say, Windows Media Player, the process will fail.  Now, lets be clear here, we are […]

Just curious to see how long they'll continue IPTV so distant from Media Center, even though I can see useful features from both. PARIS — Oct. 10, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and leading set-top box manufacturers Cisco Systems Inc., Motorola Inc., Philips and Tatung Co. today announced at Broadband World Forum Europe that advanced system-on-a-chip (SoC) set-tops, which will greatly […]

Sharp has just released a new DVR with twin Freeview tuners. The 160GB model supports the 8 day Freeview EPG along with a PIP function. As well, this model will record subtitles if recording your favorite foreign language film. From the article: Other features of the R160H worth a mention include an unusually low power consumption rate of 0.5W in […]

The biggest PVR news of the year has to be the TiVo series 3 release. To be honest, I still have sticker shock. It is hard to take a product seriously that is going to cost you a significant amount more then say a Direct TV PVR or even a five dollar a month cable DVR. The dual HD recording, […]

We posted about Direct TV's new PVR here , and it looks like the big boys at C|Net have taken a look at it as well. After a steep drop to $299, Direct TV has their cross hairs pointed at TiVo. The new H20 offers 200 hours of SD storage and 50 hours of HD storage . From the article:  […]

TVPredictions has a one page review of DirectTV's new HD PVR. They are not convinced its ready for prime time mainly because of the instability while attempting to record something. No matter the bells and whistles, if a recording is missed there is hell to pay from the significant other. From the article: Overall, I'd have to say it's a […]

Prior to making the switch to Satellite, knowing which DVR is best capable for your family's needs can go a long way in smoothing the rough transition over with your wife/significant other. DVR Playgournd has the rundown on the different DVR packages from Direct and Dish. THe article looks heavily at the tech aspects such as buffering, guide data and […]