Digital Video Recorders News

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Digital video recorders are common. Unfortunately, most of them come directly from cable or satellite providers, meaning that the recordings can only be played on the box and cannot be transferred off of it.

While companies weigh bids for Hulu and industry heavyweights complain that TV Everywhere isn't going much of anywhere, another way to watch time-shifted television is quietly gaining traction: video-on-demand, or VOD.

Back at CES, we admired Verizon's upcoming six-tuner IPTV Media Server and thin clients.

Liberty Lake-based PC Open Inc., a maker of digital video recorders and surveillance equipment doing business as OpenEye, says California-based CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc.

TiVo reported earlier this week that it netted 277,000 subscribers through its expanding roster of pay-TV partnerships, notching its largest quarterly increase in this area in more than seven years.

Peace of Mind Technologies, a leading security and technology integrator in New York City, announced today a charity contest benefiting a local children's organization.

We're at just 1,007,000 direct accounts, 22,000 fewer than TiVo had three months ago and 73,000 net defections over the past year.

Seagate Technology has announced the new Seagate Video 3.5 high-capacity hard disk drive engineered specifically for use in video applications such as digital video recorders , set-top boxes , and surveillance systems.

TiVo announced its quarterly earnings yesterday, revealing a net loss for the quarter of $10.8 million.

The DVR pioneer says that it added 277,000 subscriptions from cable and satellite companies, the biggest increase from pay TV providers in more than seven years.

Its biggest downside is that it does not record programming, so cannot compete with personal video recorders such as MySky or Freeview, or even TiVo for that matter.

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Internet TV streaming service Aereo may be making news headlines--and headaches for national broadcasters--but Chet Kanojia hasn't let that deter him.

This file image provided by Aereo shows a screenshot from the iPad showing Aereo.com streaming 'Bob the Builder' on New York's PBS station, WNET 13.

TiVo's iPad app is already known for being quite in-depth with a remote control, ways to schedule recordings, and program guides, but the company announced Wednesday that it's rolling out yet another significant feature -- content "feeds." Starting Thursday, with an app update, users will see a revamp of the TiVo app dubbed "What to Watch Now." ... (more)

At this past weekend's TVnext Hack event , a loose consortium of geeks, hackers, and businessmen from the television and technology industries gathered in a high-rise Boston office building to compete for cash and prizes by inventing and building technologies that add to the experience of watching television.

Aereo, the startup that offers television stations over the Internet starting at $8 a month, says it will start service in Atlanta on June 17.

Coquitlam, Canada, May 14, 2013 -- -- Seon Design Inc. introduces the Explorer DX-HD to its product line-up, a new HD-ready mobile digital video recorder , capable of recording at 30 frames per second simultaneously on all 13 channels.

Perhaps the biggest news out of TV upfront week so far is Fox's decision to give Jack Bauer the zombie treatment with a 12-episode, time-skipping "limited series" return next summer.