The most popular Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is probably the TiVo. he major down-side to the product was that you had to subscribe to the programing guide with a monthly fee that was transmitted to the device over your phone line. As the market for DVRs in general has progressed, they are offered by all of the cable and satellite TV companies with new and improved features, but they all still subscription based.
Subscription Free, Stand Alone, Digital Video Recorder
- Subscription Free - Works without connection to a phone line and paying a monthly subscription for a programming guide.
- Stand Alone - Does not require connection to a PC, or use of a PC what-so-ever
- Digital Video Recorder - records input source or from a tuner to a digital video file on an internal hard disk or EPROM memory.
Other considerations:
- Allows the recording of copy protected video source (DRM Free) (Macrovision Free / Macrovision Indifferent)
- Uses a high quality, high compression digital video standard file type such as DivX, XvidD, or H.254.
- Ability to extract video files from the unit for transfer to another unit or PC