Dish Network unveils `Slingloaded' TV recorder

Satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp. on Thursday unveiled a digital video recorder that can send TV signals to a computer screen or mobile phone.

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Cable, led by Cablevision, mulls network DVR

If the nation's largest cable TV operators have their way, the home digital video recorder could soon become a relic.

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What Tivo and DVR are doing to TV

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What Tivo and DVR are doing to TV

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What Tivo and DVR are doing to TV

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Fox Tries to Thwart DVR Fast-Forwarding

Fox is running a 30-second television spot with just one static image in an effort to reach viewers who fast forward through ads using digital video recorders like TiVos.

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TiVo Unveils Its 1st High-Definition DVR

Playing a bit of catch-up to rival offerings, TiVo Inc. will unveil Tuesday a new high-end digital video recorder that will be the company's first to support high-definition programming.

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TiVo to Start Selling Dual-Tuner DVR

TiVo Inc. will start selling on Monday its first digital video recorder to let users record two shows at once, incorporating a feature it sorely lacked.

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Cable TV operators won a key legal battle against Hollywood studios and television networks on Monday as the Supreme Court declined to block a new digital video recording system that could make it even easier for viewers to bypass commercials.

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President Obama's attorney filed papers with the Supreme Court supporting an earlier court decision that found Cablevision's remote storage DVR to be legal.

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Dish Network TV link with some good savings. Free installation and Free dvr-hdtv upgrades.

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Wow, these deals with Dish Network Dish TV are great. Save when you can these days! I didn't know it was only $9.99/month.

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We'll be totally honest here: we love TiVo. TiVo DVRs of every vintage are scattered throughout the Engadget editorial ranks, and Series3 units are our preferred hardware for HD Netflix streaming and Amazon's nascent HD Video on Demand service.

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What if you could stream top-end games to your TV, just like a Youtube video that you can control? You'd never need to buy a console again.

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Are you sick of high cable tv bills? Don't be a fool and keep paying them.

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In a recent note issued to clients, Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray predicts that Apple will eventually come out with an Apple-branded television set with DVR functionality, and the ability to stream content directly from iTunes.

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It's time to drop the hobby talk. First-quarter unit sales of Apple TV tripled from a year earlier, in part due to a software update introduced a year ago that lets users rent movies, including some in the ultra-crisp high-definition format.

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If you don't watch the next episode of Battlestar Galactica when it airs live on Friday, you could pay a terrible price. The episode will run a few minutes long.

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SCI FI Channel is letting viewers know that the Jan. 16 return of Battlestar Galactica at 10 p.m. will run 3 1/2 minutes long, so make sure to plan ahead if you're watching live or set your DVR accordingly if you're not.

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"Tyler Perry's House of Payne" is running in the middle of the pack when it comes to cable sitcoms, but among the African-American audiences it targets, it tops anything else on television, reports Broadcasting & Cable.

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[I]t's time for TiVo to focus its resources on licensing its technologies for the non-TiVo DVR boxes offered by cable and satellite TV providers.

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DIRECTV, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTV), the nation's leading satellite television service provider, and TiVo Inc.

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A Hollywood proposal to block DVR recording capability on some cable-distributed movies has been met with alarm by NATO—that is, the National Association of Theater Owners.

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See what they did there? They paused the TV show, ran a little mini-commercial for some show that no one cares about, and then returned to the last two seconds of the segment before going to commercial.

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"The winner is … David …" Argh!

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Handfuls of Windows Vista Media Center users found themselves blocked from making recordings of their favorite TV shows this week when a broadcast flag triggered the software's built-in copy protection measures.

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TiVo has added the ability to view downloadable Web videos on the company's DVRs, making good on its announcement at January's Consumer Electronics Show.

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The Motion Tracking Surveillance Camera With Built-In DVR has to be one of the coolest cameras we have ever seen. Not only does it record video directly to an internal SD card, it also has motion detection, motion tracking, automatic Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ).

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By integrating digital video recording (DVR) features into Apple TV, Apple stands to transform it's niche media hub business into a serious growth driver worth over a billion dollars annually, according to one Wall Street analyst.

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Apparently TiVo sent around an email notifying its loyal overpaying customers that it's shutting down the TiVo Rewards program on May 28th of this year.

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An appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that Dish Networks' DVRs infringe on software patents held by TiVo.

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British Telecom will be the first cable provider to allow you to buy an Xbox 360 that can be used as a set-top box for IPTV, Robbie Bach announced tonight during Bill Gates' CES keynote.

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