DVR Recording Devices

The new High Definition TV technology is amazing, and has vastly improved the appearance of our favorite Television shows and movies. But there is one nagging problem and that is that the Television shows continue to be bad. With most programs pushing you to switch off your set, which can be the same regardless of whether you are viewing a high def or a general def TV, this is the time you ought to think about DVRs.

The DVR is the short form of digital VCR which is also called a personal video recorder or PVR which essentially is same as a VCR, which records content from a Television program. 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 TV watching experience more efficient. Since it is recording whatever is happening on TV, you can constantly take a personal break whenever you want to and come back to it at leisure.

Traditional models have been available since about 1999, but recently they have had to be modified to handle high definition content. A modern HD-DVR (High-Definition DVR) has a hard disc 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 most recent 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 simultaneously, while the viewer might be busy viewing the third channel.

The shortest and simplest way to obtain a HD-DVR is to take one on rent from the cable company, by paying six to ten dollars per month as rentals, but users usually are not too happy with the shortened memory storage (eight to ten hours of high def content) as well as the difficulty in handling the accompanying hardware. The only way out of this is to get one TiVo Series 3 HD-DVR available at about six hundred dollars but is worth every penny in terms of broadcast quality, memory capacity and user-friendliness.

The benefits of using such recording devices are enormous. This device can be programed to record all the programs where you have a special pursuit even if you do not know that these are broadcast - for instance, program your TiVo to record all movies starring Morgan Freeman whenever it is shown on any channel. No more empty channel-surfing, and of course, it can be used to skip over commercials, which can eliminate several hours of wasted time per week.

This could have a great effect of television publicising as recently 70% of advertisers said that with the increasing popularity of DVRs, the thirty second spots would soon become history. And about a fourth of admen said they would react by cutting down the amount of money spent on Television ads and directing their energy elsewhere. At last with the connection of your HDTV with a Blu-Ray DVD and a HD-DVR, the days of annoying Television commercial messages disturbing your TV viewing pleasure are finally over.