Reporter explains the ‘Magic’ behind pausing live TV
I’ve decided to start a new category called ‘PVRs & DVRs In The Media’. This category will focus primarily on what journalists and reporters are saying about the PVR / DVR revolution that is upon us.
Over the past few months I have started seeing more and more reports on PVR / DVR devices (whether on TV, the internet or in print) and almost all of them have the reporter sold on the product by the end of the column/segment. I’ve decided to start archiving these when I can find them if for no other purpose, at least so I can watch how the number of stories increases over time.
Back on Thursday Jim Rossman from the Dallas News wrote a piece titled ‘Here’s the magic behind pausing live TV’. In it he went on to explain in layman’s terms how DVRs perform their ‘magic’, mainly by buffering content. In the article he mentions TiVo by name and talks about the old favourite of pausing the first 20 minutes of an hour long show that you can watch it and skip all of the commercials. He also gives out the great advice to his readers that they should visit www.tivocommunity.com to learn more about the potential of their devices. If you are going to buy a PVR / DVR, please learn all of the uses – you’ll appreciate it.
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