The Best Do-It-Yourself DVR Adds Live Cable
There’s a new way to cut the cord, and for do-it-yourself nerds like me, it might be the best way, too. SiliconDust is…
Plex Has Now Added Commercial-Cutting to Its Cordcutting DVR Service
Plex, the cable box-killing media player and DVR service, has launched a new feature to automatically strip commercials…
A Brief History of Trump and TiVo, Which He Called 'One of the Great Inventions of All Time'
Donald Trump, the seventy-year-old president of the United States of America, really loves his TiVo. This much is clear…
Roku Is About to Get a Lot Better With Sling TV
If you’re a Roku user and a Sling TV subscriber, your experience is about to get a whole lot better. Sling announced…
The Best Video Player You Can Use Finally Gets DVR Support
If you’ve got a lot of movie and TV files floating around your computer you’re doing a disservice to your free time by…
Can the New Bolt DVR Box Make TiVo King of TV Again?
When TiVo and ReplayTV launched in 1998, you had only one other real choice when it came to set top boxes. It was…
Microsoft Built a Cable Box Killer. Then They Killed It.
Last month, Microsoft confirmed that Windows Media Center would not be included in Windows 10. It was not a surprise,…
This Wearable Pauses Live TV If You Fall Asleep
Fitness trackers can tell you how many calories you're burning, but what if you just want to laze on the couch? Your…
Aereo May Live On As a DVR Service
A ruling from a federal judge in New York slammed the door firmly shut on Aereo's ambitions to stream free-to-air…
TiVo Mega: A DVR That Stores 3 Years of Video (For $5,000)
So much TV, so little time to watch it. So why not stockpile, say, three years of the stuff using TiVo's new Mega DVR?…
Aereo's Bringing Live Streaming TV To Chromecasts and Android Devices
Aereo, the brilliant (if beleaguered) system that lets you watch or record broadcast TV from any screen, anywhere, just…
TiVo Has a Prototype That Puts Your DVR Recordings in the Cloud
TiVo is showing off a prototype at CES that we hope launches at some point: a Network DVR that uploads your recordings…
You Can Record a Ridiculous 8 Shows at a Time with Dish's New DVR
Dish's Hopper, long the king of DVRs, just zoomed even farther ahead: it's introducing a new SuperJoey, an improved…
TiVo has announced that its Roamio Pro and Roamio Plus DVRs will now offer out-of-home streaming, allowing…
The Secret Method to Skip Commercials with One Button on Your DVR
DVRs have made all our lives better, that's a verifiable fact. But fast forwarding through our DVRs is an inexact…
Twitter DVR Sounds Like an Awesome Idea
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was hanging out at a panel this morning at the Center for Technology Information, and while he…
Do You Actually Watch the Stuff on Your DVR?
The DVR is a genius invention. Never miss anything again! Skip commercials! But you got all ambitious and recorded a…
This TiVo Mini Extends Your DVR For $100 (Plus a $6 Monthly Fee)
If you have a TiVo in your home entertainment set-up and wish it could serve its content elsewhere, here's a solution.…
Dish's Newest Hopper DVR Has Sling Built In and Can Wirelessly Transfer TV Shows to Your iPad
Dish, which introduce the king of DVRs last year, has updated the Hopper DVR to include Sling. Previously, using Sling…