Many of the Scientific Atlanta DVR boxes offered by the cable companies allow you to connect an external hard drive to increase the storage capacity of your DVR. To do this, your DVR box must have an ...

Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. Downside: The Sonys look good on paper, but they're up against some ...

Electric bills have skyrocketed recently, thanks to recent rate hikes and new high-tech appliances that eat up watts. But one entertainment appliance might be the biggest power hog of all — the cable ...

I reported in October that Charter Spectrum had introduced a new device called Xumo, which can replace your existing cable box — including live TV — and also stream programming from platforms such at ...

Leave it to those wet blankets in the federal government to tell us that watching modern-day TV is about as energy inefficient as possible. For years, the cable companies have been switching all their ...

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.

The DVR has always been a tool to record TV shows and play them back, to watch on the television. Amazon changes that. Its Fire TV Recast DVR, out Nov. 14, will re-imagine how you think of a DVR. Yes, ...