For a certain kind of cord-cutter, combining over-the-air broadcasts and cable channels into a single DVR has always been the dream scenario. While we’ve seen several attempts in the past—including ...

That hurts, even $5 a month, because Cable Quitters are also Cost Cutters. You won’t like this, either: Tablo also needs an external hard disk drive (up to 2 terrabytes, up to 500 hours of HD ...

Digital Video Recording hit an inflection point in 2005, both for equipment and services, according to iSupply. Cable companies have moved from tentative deployment of DVRs to aggressive deployment.

There’s a new way to cut the cord, and for do-it-yourself nerds like me, it might be the best way, too. SiliconDust is best known for its series of HDHomeRun DVR devices that you hook up to a hard ...

As more and more TV viewers cut the cable for the wealth of other options, one feature that’s often missing from the new home entertainment configuration is a DVR. Nuvyyo Inc. attempts to fill that ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to look at the issue of whether cable operators can deliver networked DVR services. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

Tivo’s latest DVR brings a software overhaul and voice search, but it still feels tethered to the past. As time goes by, TiVo gets harder to love. The cable-box DVRs for which TiVo serves as an ...

As far as watching TV goes, the experience provided by a traditional cable provider is shit. Slow hardware, clunky interfaces, unwanted bundled channels. Streaming services are slowly replacing all of ...