Tag: DVR

I love it when the NY Times finds worthy the subject of DVRs, as there's a lot of mainstream people that still don't know very much. Here David Pogue covers some of TiVo's new features, mainly its tighter integration with web services and offerings. NY Times  The much-hyped Apple TV is a set-top box that brings your computer's music, photos […]

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies ; STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the leader in set-top box chips; and Metalink Ltd. (NASDAQ: MTLK), a provider of high-performance wireless and wireline broadband communication silicon solutions, today announced their collaboration to launch a revolutionary set-top box, which supports high-definition (HD) TV quality based on […]

I remember how difficult it was selling people on HDTV's back in the day, and now it seems TiVo's having a similar problem justifying their obscenely expensive HD TiVo unit considering there's still only a limited number of HD channels.  "The other clear learning at retail is that High-Definition television sets are the most important new consumer electronics item," Rogers […]

Reading a post like this really makes you appreciate the capabilities of Extenders for HTPCs, such as the Xbox360 or the Hauppauge MVP, depending on your software. So he plugged a coaxial cable into the video output jack on his TiVo and ran it to the cable junction box. Now you can plug any TV into any cable jack in […]

PVR Blog has a good post about an article on the NY Times claiming only 1 in 3 DVR owners actually fast forward. They do a good breakdown, because that number seems awfully low to me. I hope if you guys spend all the money & time on your DVR or HTPCs that you'd um…actually use em 🙂 Digging deeper […]

Being the die hard HTPC fan I am, I don't have a TiVo in my house for a couple of reasons. My wife will like it better then the HTPC I will find out I like it better then the HTPC.. scary.. The goal of this release is to bring S3 up to the same feature set the S2 has.  […]

EngadgetHD, a good source for all that is HD, has a couple of Sharp Aquos products up today. First up, they talk about the 1TB HD recorder that is coming down the pipe. As far as HD recorders go, it is fairly feature packed with 1TB HD, dual HD and analog tuners, firewire ports, USB jacks and cell phone compatability. […]

Since I started packing a month ago for my eventual move, I have had to live without many of luxuries my HTPC afforded me. No more DVR, no more ROM game loving on my big screen, no more weather, and of course I really don't get to use Vista's Fox Sports plugin to its full potential. After reading this article, […]