The rise of cord cutting and streaming video was supposed to render the digital video recorder (DVR) irrelevant. In theory, you shouldn’t need to record anything when services like Netflix and Amazon ...

Say what you will about cable TV, it at least it got the DVR right. With traditional pay TV service, it was easy to record a show, access that recording from a dedicated DVR menu, skip through the ...

You want to cut cable, but can’t imagine giving up recording your favorite programs to watch later? That was me a few years ago, and a Tablo TV tuner was just what I was looking for. This digital ...

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, ...

In the cutthroat world of cord-cutting, the best options don’t always get the most customers. Case in point: Hulu + Live TV, whose 3.7 million subscribers make it the most popular cable bundle ...

Hard drive makers are thinking out of the box when it comes to digital video recorders. Maxtor and Seagate Technology have plans to add external hard drives to DVRs in a bid to give consumers more ...