Electric bills have skyrocketed recently, thanks to recent rate hikes and new high-tech appliances that eat up watts. But one entertainment appliance might be the biggest power hog of all — the cable ...

I want to be able to hook it up to my tv, get access to the built in TV guide along with my paid for channels. I do not want to pay ANY fee's(otherwise I would just go with my cable company's dvr.) ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Digital video recorders are a double-edged sword for the broadcast ...

Being able to watch shows recorded by a DVR on any TV in the house will be the norm in a few years, but today it's still news whenever a device is announced that adds multi-room support to your home ...

O Roamio, Roamio, wherefore art thou Roamio? The answer, hopes TiVo, is next to your TV. TiVo, which pioneered the digital-video recorder in the late 1990s and early 2000s, is back with Roamio, its ...

Moving into on-campus housing and losing access to DirecTV. Basic cable is provided with the rent, but due to it being a bulk account the cable company won't rent a DVR unit to me so I'm looking for ...

Digital Video Recording hit an inflection point in 2005, both for equipment and services, according to iSupply. Cable companies have moved from tentative deployment of DVRs to aggressive deployment.

The DVR has always been a tool to record TV shows and play them back, to watch on the television. Amazon changes that. Its Fire TV Recast DVR, out Nov. 14, will re-imagine how you think of a DVR. Yes, ...

U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to look at the issue of whether cable operators can deliver networked DVR services. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...