Dvr Archive

  • elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    elgato EyeTV HD DVR for Mac easily makes iPad-compatible versions of your favorite TV shows

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Mac users may get a kick out of this, the elgato EyeTV HD. It's a DVR solution that works with your cable and satellite channels, sending everything to your Mac instead of a plain ol' TV. From there you can watch or edit whatever you've recorded. Easy as pie.

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  • Study: TiVo, other DVRs don’t negatively affect TV advertising

    Study: TiVo, other DVRs don’t negatively affect TV advertising

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Reasonably interesting study coming out of Duke University that says that digital video recorders (TiVo and the like) do not negatively affect television advertising at all. That flies in the face of conventional wisdom, wisdom that says TiVo and its ilk have destroyed the TV business forever. Well, that's just not the case.

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  • Be on the lookout for TiVo news later today!

    Be on the lookout for TiVo news later today!

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    I don't want to alarm any of you, but today is TiVo Day! Yes, a little later on today TiVo will unveil something that's sure to please Matt Burns, if no one else. There have been plenty of rumors as to what the company has up its sleeves, but I'm sworn to secrecy. That, and it's been several months since they actually told me What's Up, and I simply do not remember what I was shown behind closed doors.

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  • DVRs, more mature Internet will prevent TNA from re-igniting the Monday Night Wars against WWE

    DVRs, more mature Internet will prevent TNA from re-igniting the Monday Night Wars against WWE

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    The best numbers I could find suggest that 30 percent of homes in the U.S. have access to a DVR. That doesn't seem like a lot, no, but it's already had an undeniable impact on the way TV studios evaluate their shows. Lost, The Office, and The Ultimate Fighter all saw their final ratings boosted after taking into account delayed DVR viewings. That means that just because a show doesn't have killer overnight ratings doesn't mean plenty of people aren't watching—they're just watching a little while later.

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  • torne: Sony Japan’s DVR/TV tuner for PS3 gets priced and dated

    torne: Sony Japan’s DVR/TV tuner for PS3 gets priced and dated

    Posted on February 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony Japan has been preparing an ISDB-T tuner peripheral called torne for the PS3 for quite some time now, and today the company announced [JP] both a final price ($110) and a release date (March 18). Unfortunately, the device, which comes with DVR software, is Japan-only at this point. The torne is similar to PlayTV (not available in the US), a twin-channel DVB-T tuner first launched in Europe back in 2008.

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  • Comcast acknowledges 2005 by slowly rolling out remote DVR scheduling

    Comcast acknowledges 2005 by slowly rolling out remote DVR scheduling

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Do you have a Comcast DVR? I do. I also have a TiVo, which has had remote scheduling since 2005. I can almost schedule recordings remotely to my Comcast DVR. Not yet, but almost – it’s not available in Boston yet, apparently. If you have a Comcast DVR, check out www.comcast.net/mydvr/ to see if the service has been switched on in your area.

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  • Let’s blame Leno’s decline in ratings on the DVR rather than trying to acknowledge that media consumption is changing

    Let’s blame Leno’s decline in ratings on the DVR rather than trying to acknowledge that media consumption is changing

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    I'm pretty sure I wrote the complete opposite story several days ago, but who cares, right? It's cold and rainy and there's not much else to talk about. So! As you're probably well aware, Jay Leno's new show isn't doing too well. Why is that? Well, you can try to sit down and analyze if the show is any good or not (note: I haven't seen the show), or if the show's earlier time slot isn't conducive to that type of show. You know, just try to examine what's going on. That, or you can blame those damn DVRs for ruining everything. Let's go with that one.

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  • How do you like that, DVRs didn’t kill the television business after all

    How do you like that, DVRs didn’t kill the television business after all

    Posted on November 3, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's a story I first heard on Figure 4 Daily last night while farming for mageweave (no, I'm not lying): not only have DVRs not ruined the TV businesses, as we had been led to believe for so many years, but it turns out that the delayed viewings, and more accurate ratings, have given the networks exactly what they've always wanted. That, of course, is the opportunity to squeeze more money out of their advertisers.

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  • Turns out you really, really, like your television provider

    Turns out you really, really, like your television provider

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Last year, overall satisfaction with television providers was at the lowest level in 5 years. It seems however, that when J.D. Power tells the providers that they suck, they listen. And now, they seem to have actually turned it around.

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  • Toshiba still ignores Blu-ray, releases three DVD-based DVRs in Japan

    Toshiba still ignores Blu-ray, releases three DVD-based DVRs in Japan

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Toshiba, the company behind the now dead HD DVD format, first talked about joining the Blu-ray bandwagon back in June, but it seems there's no hurry. The company announced a total of three new Vardia DVRs today [JP], and they all use DVDs and HDDs to store data.

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