Category : Equipment

How to Get Hooked Up With Cable DVR Service

New York Post Online Edition: living Switching to DVR service is easy for Time Warner or Cablevision subscribers. Just switch out your cable box for a DVR and start paying a modest monthly fee.You can make the switch at a...More

Fast Forward Video Launches New FieldPro DVR

Ultra-Compact Personal Recorder With IDE Drives Offers Exceptional Image Quality and Recording Flexibility IRVINE, Calif. —February 15, 2005 — Fast Forward Video, Inc. (FFV), a recognized innovator of digital video recorder (DVR) technology for broadcast, industrial video, presentation, and military...More

Comcast DVR Glitches

MercuryNews.com | 01/31/2005 | Bigger glitch with Comcast's DVR service According to Mike Langberg at Mercury News the Comcast DVR is freezing up for a number of users and failing to record programs.I called Comcast last week and got the...More

TiVo Series2 DVR (80 hours) review

TiVo Series2 DVR (80 hours) review - Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) - CNET Reviews CNET review of the TiVo Series 2, giving it a rating of 8.0/10.0.TiVo remains the coolest, slickest, and most versatile standalone DVR available.The bottom line?The best...More...

Multiroom DVR: The Entertainment Network Comes Home

Competition Will Spur Cablecos, Satellite Vendors, and Telcos to Deploy Entertainment Networking Solutions DALLAS, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 25, 2005 -- Cable and satellite television providers will step up deployment of multiroom DVR (digital video recorder) solutions starting in 2005 such that...More

Panasonic PV-HS1000 DVR Review

Panasonic PV-HS1000 Digital Video Recorder Reviews in Digital Video Recorders at Review Centre User Reviews from ReviewCentre.com giving an average rating of 6.7/10Pros:Free programming guide with no monthly service feesEasy setupCons"If the romote dies, you can no longer use the...More

Humax T800 (80-hour TiVo) DVR Review

Humax T800 (80-hour TiVo) review - Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) - CNET Reviews No editor's comments yet, but there's a reader review.Basic specs for Humax T800 (80-hour TiVo) Remote control type-- Universal remote control Max Recording Capacity-- 80 hour(s) Instant...More

LG records USD 2.1 billion sales in 2004 - AME Info Business News

LG records USD 2.1 billion sales in 2004 - AME Info Business News Global and regional digital leader LG Electronics has announced record sales turnover of USD 2.1 billion, a 38 percent increase in its Middle East and Africa Operations...More

LG Electronics LG 60PY2DR and 50PY2DR Announced

Technology > Circuits > Video: Clutter Disappears as DVR Merges With Plasma TV" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/technology/circuits/13soon.html?oref=login">The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Video: Clutter Disappears as DVR Merges With Plasma TV LG Electronics has announced a new line of...More

Mitsubishi Announces WD-62825 HTDV/DVR

Mitsubishi HDTV Features Built-in DVR - Home Video News - Designtechnica News Mitsubishi has announced a new line of HDTV/DVR combo units including 5 TVs and one receiver/controller.The WD-62825 is a Digital Cable Ready 62-inch DLP(TM) HDTV display with a...More

Klegg EMC 280-DIVA Announced

Klegg Unveil 200GB DVR Press Release: Klegg have used CES 2005 to launch their EMC 280-DIVA 4-in-1 media center. Viewers can record up to 200 hours of TV to a built-in hard drive or, using the integrated DVD recorder; burn...More

Time Warner to Carry Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 Multi-Room DVR

St. Paul Pioneer Press | 01/07/2005 | Multi-TV DVRs coming from Time Warner soon Apparently Time-Warner Cable has been testing the new Scientific-Atlanta 8300 Multi-Room DVR for the past several weeks and will be the first cable company to make...More

DIRECTV Debuts Home Media Center at CES Trade Show

Digital Network System Provides Seamless DVR in Every Room Las Vegas, NV Jan 6, 2005 DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading and fastest-growing digital television service provider, today introduced at the International Consumer Electronics Show an advanced new receiver and networked...More

DISH Network Introduces Video On Demand At Consumer Electronics Show; New DISH Player-DVR 625 Makes Hit Movies Available to Satellite TV Customers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 2005--EchoStar Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) and its DISH Network(TM) satellite TV service announced today that for the first time it will offer a Video On Demand (VOD) service called DISH On Demand. DISH Network will roll...More

STMicroelectronics and Scientific-Atlanta Raise the Bar Again for Cable Set-Top Technology

Innovative Atlas custom IC, co-developed by both companies, now in production Geneva and Atlanta, January 10, 2005 -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the leading supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes, and Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. a leader in DVR and high-definition set-tops,...More

Silicon Image's SteelVine Architecture Can Be Used to Build Plug & Play

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Image, Inc. , a leader in multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media, today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the availability of the SteelVineTM storage architecture...More

LG LRM-519 Announced

LG bows Windows-friendly set-top recorder - CNET.com LG Electronics showed there new DVD recorder with built-in DVR off at CES this week. It uses new osftware from Microsoft and wirelessly connects to your home network. Features Network media DVR/DVD recorderCompatible...More

ARCHOS PMA400 Anounced

ARCHOS PMA400 Anounced ARCHOS debuted it's PMA400, a 30GB pocket-sized media player at CES. It's due out this month. It has a 3.5", 320X480, 262,000 color display and can store a whopping 120 hours of MPEG-4 video! Get the full...More

DirecTV non-TiVo DVR Announced

DirecTV launches non-TiVo DVR - Jan. 7, 2005 Last summer DirecTV began to pull away from TiVo, which led some to believe that they were developing their own DVR to replace TiVo. Thursday DirecTV debuted their DVR."We'll support our existing...More

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 Multi-Room DVR Announced

Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 Multi-Room DVR Announced Scientific Atlanta released the first Multi-Room DVR today winning the "Best Integrated Home Entertainment" award at the Storage Visions Converence in Las Vegas. It's available in both standard and HD models. Multi-room operation...More

TiVo HD CableCARD DVR Announced

TiVo Developing High-Definition, Digital Cable Ready DVR TiVO announced a cable ready High-Definition DVR today. The DVR will be release as part of the "Tahiti" strategy, allowing access to downloadable broadband content. The DVR is expected out in early 2006....More

Seagate 400GB DB35 Announced

Seagate Ships 400GB DB35 Series Hard Drive to Enable High-Definition DVR Recording Seagate unveiled the BD35 today at CES, a 400GB hard-drive designed for DVRs. Features include:400GB of space - providing up to 44 hours HDTV recording or a whopping...More

AMD unveils media processor, teams with TiVo for DVRs

EE Times -AMD unveils media processor, teams with TiVo for DVRs: AMD's new Alchemy Au1200 processor promises to streamline media player manufacturing and possibly lower costs. They've also brokered a deal with TiVo. Once content is on the media player,...More

Comcast's new DVR services beat satellite

MercuryNews.com | 01/03/2005 | Comcast's new DVR services beat satellite According to Mike Langberg at Mercury News, the new Motorola DVRs from Comcast that caused such a ruckus in California last month has proved to be worth the wait. The...More

Sony RDR-HX900 review

Sony RDR-HX900 review - DVD Players - CNET Reviews CNET has reviewed the Sony RDR-HX900 DVR-DVD recorder combo giving it 7.0 out of 10. Get the full story here....More

Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology - Computing News - Designtechnica News

Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology �The personal computer has never been well-regarded for its abilities to deliver high-quality video playback,� said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. �The GeForce 6 Series with PureVideo technology finally merges the flexibility...More