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Digital video recorder, the Glossary

A digital video recorder (DVR), also referred to as a personal video recorder (PVR) particularly in Canada and British English, is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device.^[1]

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Digital video recorders
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Ad Age

Ad Age (known as Advertising Age until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media.

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Advanced Digital Broadcast

Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) is a company which provides software, system and services to pay-TV and telecommunication operators, content distributors and property owners around the world.

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Advanced Video Coding

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.

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Advertising

Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.

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Alarm device

An alarm device is a mechanism that gives an audible, visual, combination, or other kind of alarm signal to alert someone to a problem or condition that requires urgent attention.

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Analog recording

Analog recording is a category of techniques used for the recording of analog signals. Digital video recorder and analog recording are television terminology.

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Analog television

Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. Digital video recorder and analog television are television terminology.

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Application software

An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.

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Astro (company)

All-Asian Satellite Television and Radio Operator, doing business as Astro (stylized in lowercase title), is a Malaysian satellite television, streaming television and IPTV provider.

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Astro MAX

Astro MAX was a personal video recorder (PVR) service for Astro launched in July 2006. Digital video recorder and Astro MAX are digital video recorders.

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Asure Software

Asure Software, Inc. is a software company.

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ATSC standards

Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an International set of standards for broadcast and digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks.

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Beyond TV

Beyond TV is digital video recorder/media center software for Microsoft Windows produced by the American company SnapStream.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs).

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Broadcast flag

A broadcast flag is a bit field sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not the data stream can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. Digital video recorder and broadcast flag are television terminology.

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Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.

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Bus (computing)

In computer architecture, a bus (historically also called data highway or databus) is a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables.

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Camcorder

A camcorder is a self-contained portable electronic device with video and recording as its primary function.

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Carrier wave

In telecommunications, a carrier wave, carrier signal, or just carrier, is a periodic waveform (usually sinusoidal) that carries no information that has one or more of its properties modified (the called modulation) by an information-bearing signal (called the message signal or modulation signal) for the purpose of conveying information.

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CGMS-A

Copy Generation Management System – Analog (CGMS-A) is a copy protection mechanism for analog television signals.

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Cisco Videoscape

Cisco Videoscape (formerly NDS Group and currently known as Synamedia) was a majority owned subsidiary of News Corp, which develops software for the pay TV industry (including cable, satellite and others). NDS Group was established in 1988 as an Israeli start up company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012 before being sold back to the private equity company Permira in 2018 for US$1 billion.

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Closed-circuit television

Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

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Coaxial cable

Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced), is a type of electrical cable consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by a concentric conducting shield, with the two separated by a dielectric (insulating material); many coaxial cables also have a protective outer sheath or jacket.

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Commerce Clause

The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

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Commercial skipping

Commercial skipping is a feature of some digital video recorders that makes it possible to automatically skip commercials in recorded programs. Digital video recorder and commercial skipping are digital video recorders.

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CommScope

CommScope Holding Company, Inc. is an American network infrastructure provider based in Claremont, North Carolina.

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Comparison of DVR software packages

This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages.

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Composite video

Composite video is an baseband analog video format that typically carries a 415, 525 or 625 line interlaced black and white or color signal, on a single channel, unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) and the even higher-quality component video (three or more channels).

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Computer hardware

Computer hardware includes the physical parts of a computer, such as the central processing unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), motherboard, computer data storage, graphics card, sound card, and computer case.

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Computer keyboard

A computer keyboard is a peripheral input device modeled after the typewriter keyboard which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

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Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics or home electronics are electronic (analog or digital) equipment intended for everyday use, typically in private homes.

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Consumer Electronics Show

CES (formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.

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Content reference identifier

A content reference identifier or CRID is a concept from the standardization work done by the TV-Anytime forum. Digital video recorder and content reference identifier are digital video recorders and television terminology.

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Copy protection

Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, is any measure to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media.

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CyberLink

CyberLink Corp. is a Taiwanese multimedia software company headquartered in New Taipei City, Taiwan.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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Digital cable

Digital cable is the distribution of cable television using digital data and video compression. Digital video recorder and digital cable are television terminology.

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Digital data

Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits.

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A digital media player (also known as a streaming device or streaming box) is a type of consumer electronics device designed for the storage, playback, or viewing of digital media content.

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Digital Millennium Copyright Act

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Digital video recorder and digital rights management are television terminology.

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Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.

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Digital television

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. Digital video recorder and digital television are television terminology.

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Digital terrestrial television

Digital terrestrial television (DTTV, DTT, or DTTB) is a technology for terrestrial television where television stations broadcast television content in a digital format.

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DirecTV

DirecTV, LLC (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California.

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Dish Network

DISH Network L.L.C. (an acronym for "Digital Sky Highway"), a subsidiary of EchoStar, provides multichannel television and satellite television via DISH Network, mobile phone service via DISH Wireless (Boost Mobile), as well as over-the-top IPTV services via Sling TV.

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Disk storage

Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a data storage mechanism based on a rotating disk.

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Display device

A display device is an output device for presentation of information in visual or tactile form (the latter used for example in tactile electronic displays for blind people).

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Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital, originally synonymous with Dolby AC-3 (see below), is the name for a family of audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories.

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DTE (direct to edit)

DTE (direct to edit) is a digital video direct-to-disk recording method (and also refers to the associated equipment) used to streamline the post-production video editing workflow of raw video files into a non-linear editing system (NLE). Digital video recorder and DTE (direct to edit) are digital video recorders and television terminology.

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DTVPal

The DTVPal was a line of digital-to-analog converter boxes designed by EchoStar Communications, under the Dish Network name.

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Durban

Durban (eThekwini, from itheku meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.

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DVB

Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) is a set of international open standards for digital television.

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DVBViewer

DVBViewer is proprietary, commercial software for viewing & recording of DVB TV & Radio using a TV tuner card or box and a Media Center for viewing Music, Video and Pictures.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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EchoStar

EchoStar Corporation is an American company providing satellite communication and Internet services.

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Edward Y. Chang

Edward Y. Chang is a computer scientist, academic, and author.

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Electronics

Electronics is a scientific and engineering discipline that studies and applies the principles of physics to design, create, and operate devices that manipulate electrons and other electrically charged particles.

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Embedded system

An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system.

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European Broadcasting Union

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; Union européenne de radio-télévision, UER) is an alliance of public service media organisations whose countries are within the European Broadcasting Area or who are members of the Council of Europe.

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Event-driven programming

* In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by external events.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Fiber-optic cable

A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light.

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File Allocation Table

File Allocation Table (FAT) is a file system developed for personal computers and was the default filesystem for MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to FS or fs) governs file organization and access.

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Firmware

In computing, firmware is software that provides low-level control of computing device hardware.

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Flash memory

Flash memory is an electronic non-volatile computer memory storage medium that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

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Forrester Research

Forrester is a research and advisory company that offers a variety of services including research, consulting, and events.

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Fox Broadcasting Co. v. Dish Network, LLC

Fox Broadcasting Co.

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Frame grabber

A frame grabber is an electronic device that captures (i.e., "grabs") individual, digital still frames from an analog video signal or a digital video stream.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free-to-air

Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscription, other ongoing cost, or one-off fee (e.g., pay-per-view). Digital video recorder and Free-to-air are television terminology.

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Freesat+

Freesat+ is a consumer brand introduced to raise consumer awareness and promote sales of Freesat-capable digital TV recorders, otherwise known as personal video recorders. Digital video recorder and Freesat+ are digital video recorders.

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's sole digital terrestrial television platform.

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GB-PVR

GB-PVR was a PVR (personal video recorder aka digital video recorder) application, running on Microsoft Windows, whose main function was scheduling TV recordings and playing back live TV.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Hard disk recorder

A hard disk recorder (HDR) is a system that uses a high-capacity hard disk to record digital audio or digital video. Digital video recorder and hard disk recorder are set-top box and television terminology.

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Héctor García-Molina

Héctor García-Molina (26 November 1954 – 25 November 2019) was a Mexican-American computer scientist and Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

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HDMI

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. Digital video recorder and HDMI are television terminology.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. Digital video recorder and high-definition television are television terminology.

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Home Depot

The Home Depot, Inc. is an American multinational home improvement retail corporation that sells tools, construction products, appliances, and services, including fuel and transportation rentals.

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Home theater PC

A home theater PC (HTPC) or media center computer is a convergent device that combines some or all the capabilities of a personal computer with a software application that focuses on video, photo, audio playback, and sometimes video recording functionality.

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Hopper (DVR)

Hopper is a line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes offered by the U.S. direct-broadcast satellite television provider Dish Network. Digital video recorder and Hopper (DVR) are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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Humax

Humax is a consumer electronics company.

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Image resolution

Image resolution is the level of detail of an image.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Internet Protocol

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries.

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Internet Protocol television

Internet Protocol television (IPTV), also called TV over broadband, is the service delivery of television over Internet Protocol (IP) networks. Digital video recorder and Internet Protocol television are television terminology.

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InterVideo WinDVR

InterVideo WinDVR is a commercial digital video recorder (DVR) software package for Windows operating systems.

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Jennifer Widom

Jennifer Widom (born) is an American computer scientist known for her work in database systems and data management.

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JPEG

JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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Kenmore (brand)

Kenmore is an American brand of household appliances, cookware, floorcare, grills, HVAC equipment and other home items owned and licensed by Transformco, an affiliate of ESL Investments.

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Kodi (software)

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player and technology convergence software application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium.

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Kogan.com

Kogan.com is an Australian portfolio of retail and services businesses including Kogan Retail, Kogan Marketplace, Kogan Mobile, Kogan Internet, Kogan Insurance, Kogan Travel, Kogan Money, Kogan Cars, Kogan Energy, Dick Smith, Matt Blatt and Mighty Ape.

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Kohler Co.

Kohler Co., founded in 1873 by John Michael Kohler, is an American manufacturing company based in Kohler, Wisconsin.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Leadtek

Leadtek Research, Inc. is a Taiwanese company, founded in 1986, which focuses on research and development that is specialized in the design and manufacture of graphics cards.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.

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LinuxMCE

LinuxMCE (Linux Media Center Edition) is a free and open source software platform with a 10-foot user interface designed to allow a computer to act as a home theater PC (HTPC) for the living-room TV, personal video recorder, and home automation system.

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List of Motorola products

This is a list of Motorola products.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Marc Andreessen

Marc Lowell Andreessen (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer.

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Mass storage

In computing, mass storage refers to the storage of large amounts of data in a persisting and machine-readable fashion.

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A media server is a computer appliance or an application software that stores digital media (video, audio or images) and makes it available over a network.

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MediaPortal is an open-source media player and digital video recorder software project, often considered an alternative to Windows Media Center.

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Memory card

A memory card is an electronic data storage device used for storing digital information, typically using flash memory.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Modulation

In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a separate signal called the modulation signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. Digital video recorder and modulation are television terminology.

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Motion detection

Motion detection is the process of detecting a change in the position of an object relative to its surroundings or a change in the surroundings relative to an object.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.

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Moxi (DVR)

Moxi was a line of high-definition digital video recorders produced by Moxi Digital Digeo and Arris International. Digital video recorder and Moxi (DVR) are digital video recorders.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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MPEG program stream

Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a container format for multiplexing digital audio, video and more.

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MPEG transport stream

MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS, MTS) or simply transport stream (TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information".

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MPEG-4 Part 2

MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

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MPlayer

MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application.

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MSN TV

MSN TV (formerly WebTV) was a web access product consisting of a thin client device that used a television for display (instead of using a computer monitor), and the online service that supported it. Digital video recorder and MSN TV are set-top box.

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MultiChoice

MultiChoice is a South African company that operates DStv, a major satellite television service in Sub-Saharan Africa, and GOtv, a minor service operating in over nine countries of this area and Showmax service.

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Multiplexer

In electronics, a multiplexer (or mux; spelled sometimes as multiplexor), also known as a data selector, is a device that selects between several analog or digital input signals and forwards the selected input to a single output line.

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MythTV

MythTV is a free and open-source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living room TV.

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NASCAR

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.

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NASCAR Cup Series

The NASCAR Cup Series is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the most prestigious stock car racing series in the United States.

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Netscape

Netscape Communications Corporation (originally Mosaic Communications Corporation) was an American independent computer services company with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and then Dulles, Virginia.

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Network DVR

Network DVR (NDVR), or network personal video recorder (NPVR), or remote storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) is a network-based digital video recorder (DVR) stored at the provider's central location rather than at the consumer's private home. Digital video recorder and network DVR are digital video recorders.

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Network video recorder

A network video recorder (NVR) is a specialized computer system that records video to a disk drive, USB flash drive, memory card, or other mass storage device. Digital video recorder and network video recorder are digital video recorders.

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Network-attached storage

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level (as opposed to block-level storage) computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a heterogeneous group of clients.

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Non-linear editing

Non-linear editing is a form of offline editing for audio, video, and image editing.

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NTSC

NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941. Digital video recorder and NTSC are television terminology.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Optical disc image

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media) is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system.

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Orb (software)

Orb was a freeware streaming software that enabled users to remotely access all their personal digital media files including pictures, music, videos and television.

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PAL

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a colour encoding system for analog television. Digital video recorder and PAL are television terminology.

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Pat Hanrahan

Patrick M. Hanrahan (born 1955) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.

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Pay television

The pay television (pay TV), also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and streaming television. Digital video recorder and pay television are television terminology.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Physical security

Physical security describes security measures that are designed to deny unauthorized access to facilities, equipment, and resources and to protect personnel and property from damage or harm (such as espionage, theft, or terrorist attacks).

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Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device.

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Place shifting

Space shifting (or spaceshifting), also known as place shifting (or placeshifting), allows media, such as music or films, which are stored on one device, to be accessed from another place through another device.

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PNG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.

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Prime time

Prime-time, or peak-time, is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television shows. Digital video recorder and Prime time are television terminology.

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Product placement

Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique where references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent. Digital video recorder and product placement are television terminology.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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PVR-resistant advertising

PVR (DVR)-resistant advertising is a form of advertising which is designed specifically to remain viewable despite a user skipping through the commercials when using a device such as a TiVo or other digital video recorder. Digital video recorder and PVR-resistant advertising are digital video recorders.

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Quantization (signal processing)

Quantization, in mathematics and digital signal processing, is the process of mapping input values from a large set (often a continuous set) to output values in a (countable) smaller set, often with a finite number of elements.

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Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

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Remote control

In electronics, a remote control (also known as a remote or clicker) is an electronic device used to operate another device from a distance, usually wirelessly.

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ReplayTV

ReplayTV was a former DVR company that from 1999 until 2005, produced a brand of digital video recorders (DVR), a term synonymous with personal video recorder (PVR). Digital video recorder and ReplayTV are digital video recorders.

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Ripping

Ripping is the extraction of digital content from a container, such as a CD, onto a new digital location.

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SageTV

SageTV Media Center, now open source, was a proprietary, commercial DVR (Digital Video Recording) and HTPC (Home theater PC) software for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Digital video recorder and SageTV are digital video recorders.

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Satellite television

Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. Digital video recorder and satellite television are television terminology.

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Scientific Atlanta

Scientific Atlanta, Inc. was a Georgia, United States–based manufacturer of cable television, telecommunications, and broadband equipment.

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SD card

Secure Digital, officially abbreviated as SD, is a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format the SD Association (SDA) developed for use in portable devices.

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Sears

Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago.

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SECAM

SECAM, also written SÉCAM (Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire, French for color sequential with memory), is an analog color television system that was used in France, Russia and some other countries or territories of Europe and Africa. Digital video recorder and SECAM are television terminology.

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Set-top box

A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into content in a form that can then be displayed on the television screen or other display device. Digital video recorder and set-top box are television terminology.

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ShowShifter

ShowShifter, now obsolete, was a proprietary, commercial digital video recorder (DVR) and home theater PC (HTPC) software for Windows.

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Sky Q

Sky Q is a subscription-based television and entertainment service operated by British satellite television provider Sky, as a part of its operations in Austria and Germany, Ireland, Italy and in the UK. Digital video recorder and Sky Q are digital video recorders.

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Sky UK

Sky UK Limited, trading as Sky is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom.

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Sky+

Sky+ (pronounced Sky Plus) is a discontinued personal video recorder (PVR) and subscription service from the satellite television provider Sky in the UK and Ireland. Digital video recorder and Sky+ are digital video recorders.

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Smart TV

A smart TV, also known as a connected TV (CTV), is a traditional television set with integrated Internet and interactive Web 2.0 features that allow users to stream music and videos, browse the internet, and view photos. Digital video recorder and smart TV are television terminology.

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Smartphone

A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.

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Solid-state drive

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device.

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SONICblue Incorporated

SONICblue Incorporated (NASDAQ:SBLU) was a public company based in Santa Clara, California.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.

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SubRip

SubRip is a free software program for Microsoft Windows which extracts subtitles and their timings from various video formats to a text file.

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SWF

SWF is a defunct Adobe Flash file format that was used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript.

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Tablet computer

A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.

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Tablo (DVR)

Tablo is a digital video recorder (DVR) for Over-The-Air (OTA) broadcast television signals that is controlled by a tablet or web-based application. Digital video recorder and tablo (DVR) are digital video recorders.

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Telephone line

A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Digital video recorder and Television are television terminology.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a commercial, spot, break, advert, or ad) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization. Digital video recorder and television advertisement are television terminology.

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Television set

A television set or television receiver (more commonly called TV, TV set, television, telly, or tele) is an electronic device for the purpose of viewing and hearing television broadcasts, or as a computer monitor. Digital video recorder and television set are television terminology.

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Terrestrial television

Terrestrial television or over-the-air television (OTA) is a type of television broadcasting in which the content is transmitted via radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth-based) transmitter of a TV station to a TV receiver having an antenna. Digital video recorder and terrestrial television are television terminology.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Third-party software component

In computer programming, a third-party software component is a reusable software component developed to be either freely distributed or sold by an entity other than the original vendor of the development platform.

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Three Moons Over Milford

Three Moons Over Milford is an American science fiction dramedy television series set in a picturesque small town in southern Vermont.

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Time shifting

In broadcasting, time shifting is the recording of programming to a storage medium to be viewed or listened to after the live broadcasting. Digital video recorder and time shifting are television terminology.

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TiVo

TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed and marketed by Xperi (previously by TiVo Corporation and TiVo Inc.) and introduced in 1999. Digital video recorder and TiVo are digital video recorders and television terminology.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California.

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TiVo digital video recorders

TiVo digital video recorders encompass a number of digital video recorder (DVR) models that TiVo Corporation designed. Digital video recorder and TiVo digital video recorders are digital video recorders.

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Topfield

Established in South Korea in 1998, TOPFIELD Co., Ltd. is a consumer electronics manufacturer making broadcasting receivers, other video and audio related apparatus.

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Tuner (radio)

A tuner is a subsystem that receives radio frequency (RF) transmissions, such as FM broadcasting, and converts the selected carrier frequency and its associated bandwidth into a fixed frequency that is suitable for further processing, usually because a lower frequency is used on the output. Digital video recorder and tuner (radio) are set-top box.

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TV gateway

A TV gateway (also called network TV tuner) is a television headend to a network UPnP router that receives live digital video broadcast (DVB) MPEG transport streams (channels) from terrestrial aerials, satellite dishes, or cable feeds and converts them into IP streams for distribution over an IP network. Digital video recorder and tV gateway are television terminology.

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TV Guide

TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.

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TV tuner card

A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Digital video recorder and tV tuner card are set-top box.

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TV-Anytime

TV-Anytime is a set of specifications for the controlled delivery of multimedia content to a user's local storage. Digital video recorder and tV-Anytime are digital video recorders and television terminology.

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Twisted pair

Twisted pair cabling is a type of communications cable in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of improving electromagnetic compatibility.

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U-verse TV

U-verse TV is an internet protocol television (IPTV) service operated by DirecTV.

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USB flash drive

A flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive elsewhere) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.

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USB On-The-Go

USB On-The-Go (USB OTG or just OTG) is a specification first used in late 2001 that allows USB devices, such as tablets or smartphones, to also act as a host, allowing other USB devices, such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, mouse or keyboards, to be attached to them.

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V+

V+ (previously known as TVDrive) is a set-top box for Virgin Media's Virgin TV service, which provides personal video recording (PVR) and high definition (HD) functionality to customers who subscribe to the service. Digital video recorder and v+ are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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Vantiva

Vantiva SA, formerly Technicolor SA, Thomson SARL, Thomson SA, and Thomson Multimedia, is a French multinational corporation that provides creative services and technology products for the communication, media and entertainment industries.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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VBox Home TV Gateway

VBox Home TV gateway is a network-enabled live TV tuner and PVR HDTV set-top-box produced by VBox Communications Ltd. Digital video recorder and VBox Home TV Gateway are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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Vertical blanking interval

In a raster scan display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final visible line of a frame or field and the beginning of the first visible line of the next frame or field.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Digital video recorder and Video are television terminology.

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Video capture

Video capture is the process of converting an analog video signal—such as that produced by a video camera, DVD player, or television tuner—to digital video and sending it to local storage or to external circuitry.

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Video Disk Recorder

Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is an open-source application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a digital video recorder, in order to record and replay TV programming using the computer's hard drive.

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Video Electronics Standards Association

VESA, formally known as Video Electronics Standards Association, is an American technical standards organization for computer display standards.

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Video server

A video server is a computer-based device that is dedicated to delivering video. Digital video recorder and video server are television terminology.

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Videocassette recorder

A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding.

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Virgin Media is a telecommunications company from Britain, founded in 2007, which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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VOB

VOB (for video object) is the container format in DVD-Video media.

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Vu+

The Vu+ (pronounced VuPlus), is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top box), produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Co., Ltd. Digital video recorder and Vu+ are digital video recorders and set-top box.

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Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by radio waves.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Media Center (WMC) is a digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft.

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is a version of the Windows XP operating system which was the first version of Windows to include Windows Media Center, designed to serve as a home-entertainment hub.

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Xbox One

The Xbox One is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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In computing, 10-foot user interface, 10-foot UI or 3-meter user interface is a graphical user interface designed for televisions. Digital video recorder and 10-foot user interface are television terminology.

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19-inch rack

A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_recorder

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