And even in this poorest group, half have a car and over three-quarters have a video-recorder.
In 1975, Sony unveiled the first home video-cassette recorder and created a new market.
This desktop comes with a built-in television tuner, stereo speakers, a digital video recorder, Blu-ray burner and a DVD player--all its innards built behind a sleek high-definition, flat-panel screen.
No Palm Pilot, no Memo app in an iPhone, no voice-recorder, no video, no contraption, no wires just ink and paper.
That is definitely changing (we know Sony is planning a CableCard-ready HD digital video recorder and TiVo has told us they are working on one, too), but in the meantime we'll live with the setup we have now.
TiVo 's (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ) personal video recorder is popular with execs who can't adjust their work schedules to meet a broadcaster's schedule.
You know how people have been telling TiVo how the only way they're going to survive would be to convince some a cable company to license their digital video recorder software for use on set-top boxes?
It doesn't take much imagination to look down the road and see an Xbox 2 three or four years out, one that's fully compatible with older games but can also double as a DVD player-recorder and, with the addition of a big hard drive, a personal video recorder.
One-quarter of consumers surveyed own a digital video recorder (DVR), with another 20% planning to purchase in 2008.
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Instead, Mr. Samuelson mostly watches high-definition movies and shows that his digital video recorder snags from his cable service.
Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO - News) developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR).
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It sounds a lot like the Personal Video Recorder that chipmaker Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and consumer electronics concern SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) discussed in September 2002.
TiVo, of course, pioneered the modern concept of the personal video recorder (PVR), which lets TV viewers "time-shift" when they want to see programs, pause live TV, skip through commercials and all the rest.
After experience with early hand- held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974.
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Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
The recorder, run by Texas Instruments' new Da Vinci DM368 Video Processor, supports a real-time video pipeline that enhances image quality and produces crystal clear 1080p H.264 video.
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