Astonishing HDTV And DVR Technologies

The new HDTV technology is astonishing, and has vastly improved the appearance of our favorite TV shows and movies. All The Same, nothing an be done about one fact, and that is the quality of TV shows remains horrible. A silly sit-com will insult your intelligence in high definition just as easily as it will in general def, if not more and this is where DVRs come in.

A DVR is a digital VCR, and is also known as a personal VCR, or PVR whose basic function is the same as an old VCR, to record content from transmission TV. The DVR is however capable of doing much more than the old VCR, in the sense that it makes TV viewing more crisp where you do not have to waste time viewing trash. Since it is recording whatever is happening on Television, you can always take a personal break whenever you want to and come back to it at leisure.

The general models are available from way back in 1999 but the latest models are ready to handle high def materials. The technical capacity is impressive, the HD-DVR is run by a hard disc drive, which holds more than your desktop computer and can store thirty five hours of high def content or 300 hours of general material. The newer models are loaded with other features too, for example, the TiVo Series 3 not only upgrades general def content for quality improvement, it can also record 2 channels at the same time, while the viewer might be busy watching the third channel.

The easiest way to get an HD-DVR is by hiring one from your cable company, for about six to ten dollars a month although most people who do this complain about the small amount of storage (8-10 hours of HD content) and the user-unfriendliness of the typical hardware they get. The most feasible resolution to this problem is to buy a TiVo Series 3 HD-DVR, which right now costs about 0 but you would be amazed at its quality of transmission, storage capacity and comfort of use.

The benefits of using such recording devices are enormous. You could program it to record any Tv Show of special pursuit to you, even if you are oblivious of its existence - for example program the TiVo to record all movies starring Richard Gere screening in any channel anytime. No more empty channel-surfing, and naturally, it can be used to skip over commercial messages, which can eliminate several hours of wasted time per week.

The impact is so great that nearly seventy percent of television promoters confirmed in a recent study that with DVR invasion of the market, the thirty second spots would become defunct. And about a quarter of promoters said they would respond by cutting down the amount of money spent on TV 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.