Tag Archives: PVR

IBC2010 is at an end

There… it is finished, and by many accounts it has been a very successful one for the industry, although I would like to see the gross receipts from business done before I would crown it. It was a business-like IBC, with no real wow ‘almost products’, but an awful lot of ready to ship technology [...]

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DVR/PVR – Part of the Solution or just interim

Ever since the first PVR/DVRs were released, they have transformed the home TV experience. No longer were you stuck to the schedule, you could watch a programme whenever you wanted, and they were an excellent replacement for tape or DVD based recorders. The only thing that could get in the way were obscure User Interfaces, [...]

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Attention to detail in EPGs

The world of EPG (Electronic Programme Guides) has moved on since they were originally introduced alongside Digital TV (and earlier if you count Teletext as the earliest example). They have moved from nice to have guides to all the many tens to hundreds of channels and what is on them right now, through to really [...]

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DVR Success in the UK

The recent Ofcom report which stated that UK viewers are, as a proportion, more likely to own a DVR/PVR, was really promising, showing that 30% of viewers have one, as reported by InformITV and others. However the numbers have been questioned by InformITV based on a quick count of the numbers across each platform, estimating [...]

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Mutterings On Competition

Reading through my very own selection of blogs (via Google Reader), I gain a lot of information across a wide number of different subjects. Some relevant information, I place in my own customised ‘The Deeper News Headlines‘ feed that you can find just at the top right. Well today, I found something that I had [...]

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PVR/DVR – Most important features

I am looking into what are the most important features of PVRs/DVRs. Based on my own experiences, particularly with the recent Freeview Playback upgrade of the Humax 9200 series boxes I can certainly state THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE. 1. When I tell it to record, it must record no matter what. I do not want [...]

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