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Humax PVR-9200T reviewed

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Humax have released all the good stuff on their latest twin tuner PVR offering. The details:
Equipped with latest technology and design, the Duovisio is a PVR ideal for digital terrestrial broadcast reception and offers up to 100 Hours of recoding with its integrated 160GB hard disk drive.
In addition to receiving Freeview channels the Duovisio […]

MTG Launches PVR Service in Scandinavia

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

MTG has announced the launch of Viasat+, a PVR service for its Viasat pay-TV subscribers in Scandanavia.
Viasat+ is now available in Denmark and will be launched in Sweden and Norway in the coming weeks. The Viasat+ offering is available with a Viasat Gold subscription for an additional 99 kroner per month. Subscribers also […]

5 Reasons to buy a PVR Now

Thursday, September 15th, 2005

Digital Home Canada has a nice guide on 5 Reasons to buy a PVR Now. As many readers would know though sometimes it more fun to make your own

Panasonic DMR-EH50S Review

Monday, September 12th, 2005

A great review from iRecordTV (thanks to John for the tip)
The DMR-EH50S is Panasonic’s mid-range priced DVD recorder with a 100GB HDD (hard drive disk). It also acts as a DVD player and is compatible with Dolby Digital and DTS. It even plays MP3s. Panasonic was also able to add a SD card slot which […]

Pace DVB-HP PDH400 mobile PVR

Monday, September 12th, 2005

Pace has launched what’s claimsed to be the first ever DVB-H mobile PVR.
The DVB-H, PDH400 product allows real time TV viewing, and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding (high-quality video streaming compression), a 40GB hard drive (200 hours of recording) and 4.3-inch widescreen display.
One very nice looking machine!
(via MobileMag)

Doom and Gloom on DVRs?

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

This from Media Post, perhaps I’m biased but I’d think that PVR/ DVR type devices have a much better chance and will probably end up closer to the penetration of VHS as opposed to Pay TV, but then again thats me:

DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDERS MIGHT NOT take over the TV universe after all, as worried TV […]

Cowon A2 PMP review

Monday, August 29th, 2005

More pretty stuff from Korean multimedia device manufacturer Cowon, who have launched the 20 and 30GB Cowon A2 PMP with 4-inch 16:9 TFT LCD. The player supports DivX, XviD, MPEG4 and WMV9 video, as well as MP3, OGG, WMA(ASF) and WAV audio files. An AV input adapter allows for the recording of video and audio, […]

Panasonic DMREH50 review

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

I just had to share this review I just found of the Panasonic DMREH50 over at Crave because I just love the language:
While older boxes had menu systems that made a Commodore 64 seem sophisticated, the DMREH50 has an interface that’s smoother than a PSP covered in baby oil. It fires up in under a […]

Humax Inks $47 Million Deal

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Humax has clinched a contract with Premiere Fernsehen of Germany to supply $47 million, or 38.5 million euros, worth of PVR mounted digital set-top boxes.
The South Korean company said that it will begin shipping the cable-and-satellite-receiver- in-one set-top boxes to Germany’s largest digital TV network operator and biggest national pay-TV broadcaster, Premiere, next month.
Lucky Germans […]

MediaREADY 5000 Advanced Digital Media Center

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

First thoughts: I want one. This linux powered PVR from Video Without Boundaries, Inc., delivers an electronic program guide and the ability to burn to DVD and CD . The unit enables playback of DVD/CD, Real Media, MP3, WAV, MPEG 1, 2 and 4 media. The MediaREADY 5000 allows storage/retrieval of audio, picture and […]