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- DVR
- (1) Digital Video Recorder A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR...
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- Vudu takes HD lead; enough to stay alive?
- Vudu, the product and service that brings downloadable movies to TV sets, is chugging full-speed-ahead when it comes to adding HD titles to its on-demand video service. This week, there were reports that Vudu's catalog now has more than 1,100 HD titles, leading a pack that includes AppleTV and Xbox....
- Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, TiVo Inc., Vudu, Tv & Home Theater, DVR, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Netflix distribution grab continues: Hooks up with Tivo
- Update: Netflix on Thursday snared its latest distribution coup: A long-overdue partnership with TiVo in what amounts to a Netflix everywhere strategy. Under a four-year deal, Netflix will stream its movie and TV episode library on TiVo's digital recorders starting in December. The deal, reported at various...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., TiVo Inc., DVR, Business Structures, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-30
- You're the CEO: How would you spend Apple's $25 billion?
- Apple revealed in its Q4 2008 earnings conference call that the company currently has US$25 billion in cash and no debt. Steve Jobs mentioned that its cash supply allows it to invest in R&D during an economic downturn and that the company created the Apple retail store during the last...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Does an open source Roku change the content game?
- At Streaming Media West TV executives described the task of getting Web streams from PCs to TVs as "really hard" but it isn't. Within minutes of hooking my own PC up, I had a YouTube comedy sketch full-screen on my HDTV. It was hilarious. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Game, Open Source, Internet Service Provider, Digital Video Recorder, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), DVR, TVs, Digital Video, Internet, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo
- Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped among other things. I had decided to try replacing it with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable. Boy, was that a mistake. I wanted to like the Time Warner...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., Button, Digital Video Recorder, Play, Scientific Atlanta DVR, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- 70% of DVR owners say they cannot live without DVR
- More than 70% of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR, according to NDS. Asked to rank the relative importance of a variety of household appliances, DVR owners ranked the DVR as the third most indispensable item after the washing machine and the microwave oven. 89% of...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, AM
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- Did the DVR and HD impact NBCOlympics.com traffic numbers?
- My ZDNet colleagues Tom Steinert-Threlkeld and Ryan Stewart ran the raw numbers on Olympics online viewership. While the amount of traffic on the videos over the weekend was impressive -- 3.42 million video streams with 66.7 million page views and an average visit of 15 minutes...
- Tags: Olympic Games, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, TVs, Web Site Development, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- The Cablevision decision, part 1: Buffering is not copying
- This Cablevision decision looks like it may make its way to the Supreme Court on questions of the interpretation of the Copyright Act, so I'd like to take an in-depth look at the decision PDF. It's long so I'm dividing it into several posts. Technology First...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Buffer, DVR, Memory, Digital Video, Development Tools, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Second Circuit overturns remote-DVR ban
- New York cable operator Cablevision's planned remote-storage digital video recorder does not violate Hollywood studios' copyrights, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today PDF. The decision overturns a district court ruling that blocked introduction of the device because, the lower court said, it would directly...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- iCenter? Wishing, not predicting
- Lots of people have been speculating about what, if anything beyond the upgraded iPhone, Apple will announce during the June 9-13 Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Some people think it'll be a games console to compete with Nintendo's Wii; others that it might...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Productivity, DVR, Keyboards, Tablets, Desktops, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Why I didn't like "Microhoo"
- Yesterday was not a good day to be Jerry Yang. A year after returning to the helm of the company he co-founded, Yang found himself faced with an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, one that offered to pay a 50% premimum over the price of Yahoo stock. Though not ruling the...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Developer Orientation, Team Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, DVR, Management, Investment, Finance, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Archos Wi-Fi media receiver includes DVR for recording TV content
- Archos has just launched a new set-top Wi-Fi media receiver that one-ups Apple TV by enabling you to record content from your television. The Archos TV+, which includes a Web browser, also enables you to watch Web content like YouTube video and certain programming from network TV Web sites. ...
- Tags: Archos, Video, Wi-Fi, Digital Video Recorder, Programming, Archos Wi-Fi Media Receiver, DVR Capability, Corporate Communications, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, DVR, Digital Video, Development Tools, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Rumor Mill: What you'll be buying from Apple next
- Hey there, this is Jason's twin brother Jake. Jason asked me to pen a quick column on Apple rumors, so here goes... Released products are fine, but what about what's coming out next week, next month or next quarter? Here's a fun Friday peek into Apple's labs,...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple Inc., 3G, DVR, Alioscopy, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Americans 18-49 actually watch more primetime TV, thanks to DVRs
- In DVR homes, television usage live viewing plus DVR playback for persons 18-49 was 3% higher at 9:00 PM and 5% higher between 11:00 PM and midnight in November 2007 than in 2005, according to Nielsen. by NB
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, NB
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- 11% of Americans time-shift their primetime into 11pm-midnight
- The traditional prime time period (8-11 PM) is expanding as people create their own “personal television schedules” and push prime time as far back as midnight, Nielsen says. 11% of viewers age 18-49 in DVR homes are playing back recorded programming between 9 and 10 PM. 7% are playing back...
- Tags: Programming, TVs, DVR, Development Tools, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Software Development, Software/Web Development, NB
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Comcast CEO makes cable pitch
- Comcast cable subscribers will have several new products available by year's end. Among those announced in CEO Brian Roberts' Tuesday morning CES keynote speech in Las Vegas were 'AnyPlay,' which is being touted as the first portable DVR player. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on the highlights of...
- Tags: Comcast Corp., News.com, CEO, DVR, Digital Video, Cable, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Networking
- Videos 2008-01-09
- CES: My day one highlight? A surge protector
- As day one of CES comes to a close, some quick snapshots of three of the more interesting products I've come across both on the show floor, and at the myriad press-only events that accompany the show. Belkin Conserve Surge Protector Yes, you read...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Player, Slacker Portable, DVR, TVs, Wiki, Digital Music, Notebooks, Tv & Home Theater, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Online Communications, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- 80% of TiVo owners and 82% of other DVR owners likely to skip commercials
- Both TiVo and service provider DVR customers are just as likely to skip most commercials. Nearly 80% of TiVo customers and over 82% of service provider DVR customers indicated they skip all or most commercials. Both types are also both likely to record significant amounts of TV per day, with...
- Tags: Service Provider, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Business Services, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- US DVR penetration is at 20%
- Nielsen estimates DVR penetration to be at 20%, up from 12% in January 2007. Ratings increase just over 15% due to DVR playback from live to live-plus-seven. The average rating against adults aged 18-49 was 2.5 for live viewing and 2.9 for live-plus-seven viewing; an increase of only 16.7%. While...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, site admin
- Blog posts 2007-12-28
- Harmony Remote (dmg)
- The new remote features improved one-touch activity buttons and a button layout optimized to control digital video recorders DVRs such as TiVo. It's also the company's first remote to include the new Harmony 7.0 software, which makes setting up the remote and fine-tuning it on the PC easier than ever....
- Tags: Logitech, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Video, DVR, Marketing, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2007-11-12
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