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Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 HDTV: 8 simultaneous time-shift channels

By Chris Davies on Monday, Oct 5th 2009 No Comments

Toshiba have announced their latest high-end LCD TV, and it’s the first to include the Cell Broadband Engine for multi-channel display and DVR recording. The Toshiba CELL REGZA 55X1 has a 55-inch, 5,000,000:1 contrast LED-backlit panel, with independent control over each of the 512 LED backlighting zones and 240Hz refresh. It’s accompanied by a processor box, housing the Cell goodies, which can pump out eight channels to be shown on-screen at once, time-shift up to eight channels simultaneously for 26 hours, or boot up a web browser based on Opera.

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TiVo for BlackBerry app offers remote scheduling

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 30th 2009 No Comments

Remotely controlling your TiVo from a BlackBerry has been possible for a while now - thanks to the mobile web interface - but now there's a specific app that aims to make it even easier. TiVo for BlackBerry Smartphones is available free from the App World, and has browse, search and scheduling functionality, together with "Daily Picks" and "Most Popular" categories.

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Neuros OSD3 development kicks off: 1080p/60, eSATA and HTML5

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No Comments

Neuros Technology have been spilling the beans about their next-gen open-source mediaplayer, the OSD3, and while it’s not set to hit shelves for at least another 18 months it’s shaping up to be impressive. The company is working with Texas Instruments regarding the OSD3’s ARM-based processor, and have official support for 1080p/60 encoding and decoding.

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AT&T U-Verse Total Home DVR gets speed boost, free films, more

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jun 16th 2009 No Comments

AT&T have announced a bevy of new features for their U-verse Total Home DVR system, that will begin rolling out to customers from today. The updates include a 20-percent speed increase to Internet Max subscribers, taking their connection up to 12Mbps, plus more flexibility in scheduling recordings from any U-verse receiver or a new version of the system website.

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TiVo DirecTV PVR delayed until 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 29th 2009 No Comments

TIVO directTV 731185 TiVo have pushed back their DirecTV TiVo DVR plans to early 2010, rather than the second-half of 2009 as originally suggested. Revealed in the company’s quarterly financial call – in which TiVo confirmed that they had made a net loss of $4.1m in the three month period – no official reason for the delay was given.

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MOXI MR-1500T3 HD DVR available for all

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Mar 25th 2009 1 Comment

After a limited launch in December 2008, the MOXI HD DVR is now generally available, offering 500GB of subscription-free high-definition digital cable recording. The MOXI MR-1500T3 HD supports up to 1080p resolution video, together with images and music plus streaming internet content, with no monthly fees.

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Panasonic DMR-BS850 Blu-ray & Freesat DVR gets priced

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Feb 25th 2009 No Comments

Panasonic have been showing off their combination DVR/Freesat/Blu-ray home cinema system, and it looks like enough to make anyone without access to the free-to-air Freesat satellite service weep with envy. The Panasonic DMR-BS850 brings together a 500GB hard-drive, a Blu-ray recorder and two Freesat tuners, with full HD recording and more.

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Multifunctional MvixPVR boasts an iPod dock

By Daniel Lim on Tuesday, Dec 16th 2008 No Comments

Mvix has announced their latest multifunctional PVR with an integrated iPod dock. Essentially, the Full HD 1080P capable MvixPVR combines PVR media server, Ipod dock and HDD storage into one device that provides multimedia playback, record, time shift with streaming ability though wired or WiFi network such as NAS, UPnP media server and BitTorrent downloader.

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Dane-Elec DaneDigital So Speaky PVR

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 5th 2008 No Comments

If you’re looking for an alternative to the Archos TV+ or the AppleTV, Dane-Elec may have the option. The DaneDigital So Speaky PVR is a network-connected hard-drive media player and recorder, available with anything from 320GB to 1TB of internal capacity and capable of recording DVD-quality video.

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TiVo Mobile site offers cellphone DVR scheduling with no fees

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 25th 2008 1 Comment

TiVo have launched a mobile site that allows subscribers to program their DVR from any internet-capable cellphone. The TiVo Mobile interface has been formatted for the compact screen sizes available on mobile devices, but still manages to squeeze in listings browsing, searches and record settings, together with the company’s own “If you like this…” tool to discover new shows based on your viewing habits.