Not only can I use it to check my Hotmail account and surf the Internet, but the mobile also functions as a mirror, a flashlight, a camera, a video recorder and a music player.
The Mac mini also fell short of being a media server that can be a video recorder as well as a store for all the digital music, movies and images people accumulate, said Mr Fogg.
It doesn't take much imagination to look down the road and see an Xbox 2 three or four years out, one that's fully compatible with older games but can also double as a DVD player-recorder and, with the addition of a big hard drive, a personal video recorder.
This desktop comes with a built-in television tuner, stereo speakers, a digital video recorder, Blu-ray burner and a DVD player--all its innards built behind a sleek high-definition, flat-panel screen.
And even in this poorest group, half have a car and over three-quarters have a video-recorder.
One-quarter of consumers surveyed own a digital video recorder (DVR), with another 20% planning to purchase in 2008.
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It can pause and rewind live streams like a digital video recorder and automatically stores favorite shows for easy playback.
Certainly, this was the point Governor Romney was making in his speech to the small group of contributors that was captured by a hidden video recorder.
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By offering so-called second-screen content synchronized with the broadcast, the networks hope they can persuade viewers to watch programming live, instead of on a digital video recorder several days after their initial broadcasts are recorded.
Besides obviously needing a CableCard-ready TV set (most new digital HDTVs have to have CableCard slots), there are a few downsides, like you can't access your cable company's onscreen programming guide and you can't order pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming (at least not using your remote), but the real deal killer for us is that you won't be able to use it with a digital video recorder.
Always rehearse out loud, in front of a mirror, or to a friend or into a tape or video recorder.
Pascal, eavesdropping, wished that he had a video camera, or at least a tape recorder.
In September, Archos plans to offer a camera module for an additional price, which will convert the unit into a digital camera and video recorder.
It was the natural progression of a continuum of ideas, a singular vision that video would evolve from a consumer DV camera to every smart phone with an HD video recorder and live network connection.
It sounds a lot like the Personal Video Recorder that chipmaker Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) and consumer electronics concern SonicBlue (nasdaq: SBLU - news - people ) discussed in September 2002.
TiVo dodged a bullet yesterday, when despite the best efforts of the both the MPAA and the National Football League, the FCC granted them approval to add TiVoToGo, a new feature that would let users copy shows stored on their digital video recorder to other future TiVo boxes or a PC, or share them with some friends.
That is definitely changing (we know Sony is planning a CableCard-ready HD digital video recorder and TiVo has told us they are working on one, too), but in the meantime we'll live with the setup we have now.
You know how people have been telling TiVo how the only way they're going to survive would be to convince some a cable company to license their digital video recorder software for use on set-top boxes?
In 1975, Sony unveiled the first home video-cassette recorder and created a new market.
The Register is reporting that in a private demo at CES, Neuros revealed that its upcoming Video Recorder (the Recorder III, pictured, for those of you keeping track) and Neuros III DAC MP3 player will be Linux-based and feature dual-core TI CPUs.
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It could be a single device with various multimedia goodies: digital camera, video recorder, gaming device, wireless device, and cell phone although knowing Apple's penchant for maintaining simple interfaces, it's also likely we could see a whole lineup of multimedia devices catering to specific niches, complete with a common development platform for the fleet of Alphamosaic-based iPods.
Founded in 1997, TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) developed the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR), and today TiVo is a global leader in advanced television service offering products on multiple platforms and devices.
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Sling Media, a division of EchoStar, has announced two new Slingboxes, designed to let you access live and recorded programs on your home digital video recorder (DVR) from wherever you are on a computer, tablet or smart phone.
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What's more, the D600 adds the ability to transfer uncompressed video via the HDMI connection, which can then be routed to a digital recorder or similar device.
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Although they were recorded by the rather crude method of placing a tape recorder in front of the television, as was common in the days before video recorders, the quality is surprisingly clear.
TiVo 's personal video recorder is popular with execs who can't adjust their work schedules to meet a broadcaster's schedule.
The recorder, run by Texas Instruments' new Da Vinci DM368 Video Processor, supports a real-time video pipeline that enhances image quality and produces crystal clear 1080p H.264 video.
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TiVo 's (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ) personal video recorder is popular with execs who can't adjust their work schedules to meet a broadcaster's schedule.
After experience with early hand- held calculators at Rockwell International, with the first consumer video tape recorder at Cartridge Television, and with the original computer controlled video editing systems at CMX Systems, a CBS-Memorex joint venture, he began his own management consulting business in 1974.
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