The Technological Science Behind High-Definition DVR

By Jerry Brown

The HDTV science is as unbelievable as it has give movies and TV shows a brand new appearance. But, there is still one small issue: much of the stuff that's on Television is still terrible! With most shows pushing you to switch off your set, which can be the same no matter of whether you are watching a high def or a standard def Television, this is the time you ought to think about DVRs.

The DVR is known by various names: digital video recorder, personal video recorder of PVR and performs the same purpose as the familiar Video Cassette Recorder, which is to record whatever from TV broadcasts. But the DVR is much more than a Video Cassette Recorder, it is a machine that can cut the fat from your media diet and add hours of free time to your busy week, a few minutes at a time, by making the Television viewing experience more efficient. Plus it is always recording what you are viewing, so you'll be able to pause a live transmission as if it were a recording, then come back to it later without missing a thing.

The standard models are available from way back in 1999 but the latest models are prepared to handle high def materials. A modern HD-DVR (High-Definition DVR) has a hard drive bigger than the one in your desktop PC and uses it to store up to 35 hours of HD content, or three hundred hours of standard content. The newer models are loaded with other features too, for instance, the TiVo Series 3 not only upgrades standard def content for quality improvement, and it can also record 2 channels simultaneously, while the viewer might be busy viewing the third channel.

A quick way to get a HD-DVR is to take one on hire or lease from the cable company by paying only six to ten dollars per month, but most users feel that the memory is not enough which ranges between eight to ten hours of HD content and the hardware they receive is not very comfortable to use. The best answer to this problem right now is the TiVo Series 3 HD-DVR, which costs about six hundred dollars but is vastly superior to the typical cable company boxes in broadcast quality, storage, and ease of use.

The benefits of using such recording devices are massive. You could program it to record any programme of special pursuit to you, even if you are unaware of its being - for instance program the TiVo to record all movies starring Tom Cruise showing in any channel anytime. You no longer have to surf through the endless channels for equally endless hours and the best part is that you could view your favourite shows without the both of commercial messages and this itself is such a smart way to watch TV.

The affect is so great that nearly 70% of television promoters confirmed in a recent study that with DVR encroachment in the market, the 30 second spots would become defunct. And about a quarter of promoters said they would respond by reducing the amount of money spent on Television ads and concentrating their energy elsewhere. When you connect your HDTV with a Blu-Ray DVD and a HD-DVR, you can finally say au revoir to the annoying TV commercial messages. - 32611

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