By Stewart Schley The Reach of a Single DVR Starts to Slither Beyond the Den When Verizon Communications introduced a new multiroom digital video recorder service as part of its FiOS TV service on Aug. 14, the...
GE Security, Inc., a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), today announced completion of its digital video recorder DVR portfolio upgrade with the addition of the SymSafe product set, consisting of SymSafe™ and SymSafe™ Pro hybrid DVRs. Joining the SymDec™ 16 plus 4 DVR,...
For me, the moment when the digital video recorder finally zapped beyond the early-adapter stage to the mainstream occurred last week. I was taking my kids to school on Monday when I heard about my 10-year-old, Mafia, getting into an impassioned di For me,...
Cable and satellite subscribers with digital video recorders tend to enjoy multichannel TV more than consumers without the devices, but many viewers remain unaware that satellite providers and local cable operators offer DVRs, according to a study Cable and satellite subscribers with digital...
By Karen Brown Verizon Communications Inc. is introducing a new digital video recorder that can serve up three simultaneous streams of video, as well as photos and music, to televisions throughout the home. The new Home...
In a six-month study, ESPN gave viewers digital video recorders. At the end, the sports network came to this realization: Many people couldn't care less about DVRs. ESPN picked 100 households for its DVR experiment and periodically had traine ...
By Mike Farrell Atlanta-- Programming executives at last week's National Show added fuel to the growing debate surrounding the "network DVR," with some rattling swords about copyright-infringement lawsuits. Cablevision Systems By Mike...
Nielsen Media Research will ring in the New Year with some new viewing material. In measuring the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1, Nielsen for the first time will report national ratings reflecting data from digital video recorders. ...
By Mike Farrell Time Warner Cable, Comcast: We're Interested, Too New York -- Cablevision System Corp.'s network digital video recorder product has found at least a couple of fans among the cable industry's two biggest...
Less than two months after cutting the price of its digital video recorders to $99, TiVo Inc. has slashed the cost of its 40-hour receivers to just $49.99. Consumers can get the bargain price after shelling out $199.99 for the DVRs, and mailing in a ...
NEW YORK -- In a recent Internet survey of consumers, ABI Research found that one in four online consumers use a digital video recorder DVR, with the vast majority of these furnished by a video service provider. While DVRs were made famous by TiVo, it turns out that consumer's video...
Digital-video recorder vendors often boast about the devices improving the TV viewing experience, but can a DVR actually make someone's life better? According to some respondents in a Forrester Research survey, titled "Inside the Mind of Digital-video recorder...
BOSTON -- The US and Europe are leading the global transition toward user-controlled TV. According to "Digital Video Recorders: Demand Surges As Mass Market Era Dawns," the latest report from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service, digital video recorders DVR are set to change television viewing for 130 million...
Digital video recorders have long been thought to be a key arrow in the quiver of cable operators battling to win subscribers from satellite-service providers. But the high-tech boxes have another role, according to an analyst report released late Digital video recorders have...
After years of using its National Football League sponsorship to peddle wireless phones, Motorola Inc. plans to expand its gridiron marketing strategy to tout a new line of dual-tuner digital video recorders. The set-top vendor kicked off an ...
