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Macworld
March 2, 2005
Anton Linecker |
Plextor ConvertX PVR Plextor's ConvertX PVR for the Mac is a great way to watch and make high-quality video recordings of TV programs, especially if your Mac has a USB 2.0 port.   |
Popular Mechanics
October 2008
Rob Sabin |
Everything You Need to Know About the Digital TV Transition In reality, the digital TV transition isn't all that complicated. For most people, it is a nonissue, and for everyone else, adjusting to the switch will require minimal effort and expense. |
PC World
February 2005
Emru Townsend |
TV Tuners for Your PC Kick Back and Watch PC... Clutter-Free or USB?... TiVo Without the TiVo... Set-Top Box Wrangling... HDTV Cards: Worth the Extra Cost?... TV Tuner Tweaks... |
Macworld
June 14, 2006
Anton Linecker |
TVMini HD The Miglia TVMini HD portable PVR device lets you capture, record, edit and archive digital TV and HDTV via ATSC and Clear QAM cable. |
Home Theater
June 2002
Geoffrey Morrison |
SONICblue ReplayTV RTV4000 PVR ReplayTV and new owner SONICblue have pushed the PVR (personal video recorder) to the next level: the Internet. |
Home Theater
September 2001
Mike Wood |
Home Theater Boot Camp: Receiving HDTV A three-step guide to receiving HDTV signals... |
Home Theater
October 18, 2007 |
Best Buy Banishes Obsolete TVs Best Buy stopped selling analog sets on October 1, 2007. No longer will confused low-end consumers take home obsolete TVs. A bright new DTV world is dawning. |
Home Toys
December 2003
Rob Williams |
Are you planning to replace your VCR with a PVR? Here's a look at some alternatives to using a VCR to record TV programs. The common name for these units is PVR (personal video recorder). To help you decide which is best for you, here are a few things to look into. |
PC World
August 2002
Stan Miastkowski |
Step by Step: Turn Your PC Into a Personal Video Recorder Here's how to create a PVR cheaply by installing an add-in card and appropriate software in your PC. |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Analog TV: Fade To Black On Feb. 17, 2009 Congress will decree that broadcasters must end analog transmissions on that date and switch to the digital technology they have been phasing in for several years. If you are planning to buy a television, make sure it's digital-ready. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Television's Digital Dilemma If the struggle over digital television in the U.S. were made into a TV show, it would be a tale of intrigue, backstabbing and hidden motives. |
Home Theater
March 2002
Mike McGann |
Get Plugged In The ins and outs of A/V connections... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Talking Back to the Tube: The Future of Interactive Television How will the brave new world of interactive television change society? Tune in at a later date to find out. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
HomeToys Interview An interview with Colin Tinto, a founding member of Home Media Networks on paying for BBC television service and whether or not, in up coming years, there will even be a need for any broadcast services like we have today. |
Salon.com
December 9, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Replay it again, Sam Personal video recorders already have Hollywood running scared. Now Microsoft is pushing a new computer that will make trading TV shows as easy as using Napster. |
PC Magazine
May 7, 2004
Don Labriola |
Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U The Plextor ConvertX PX-M402U video-capture module offers superior output quality, a hardware MPEG-4 encoder, and more. |
Home Toys
August 2003
Rob Williams |
Snapstream Personal Video Station Even if you are away from home you can log into your Snapstream.NET account from a PC or a WAP and upload recording settings to your PVR at home. Handy if you forget to set the system to record the game and you're out of town. |
Macworld
April 25, 2005
Anton Linecker |
EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 Elgato Systems' EyeTV Wonder USB 2.0 offers beautiful live TV quality and good-quality EyeTV scheduling software, but has high CPU requirements and serious software bugs. Consider this viewing and recording device a work still in progress. |
Home Toys
April 2003
Rakesh Agrawal |
PC-centric Digital Home Entertainment Existing consumer electronics devices suffer from the problems of being isolated and standalone in an increasingly networked world, of being complex to setup and use. The PC is the ideal platform to solve these problems and that will make the PC the center of home entertainment. |
Linux Journal
September 1, 2007
Nicholas Petreley |
/var/opinion - The Ultimate Linux PVR The bottom line is if you want a real Personal Video Recorder, get TiVo. It will be a sad day if GPLv3 forces TiVo to fork Linux in order to continue using it. TiVo has done a remarkable job with Linux and its hardware, and it should be rewarded, not punished. |
PC World
September 2002
Stephen Manes |
Full Disclosure: Sick of Blue Screens? Get a Mac! Don't fret: Fantasies about ditching Windows are perfectly normal -- maybe even healthy. |
PC Magazine
November 5, 2003 |
Will Your Next TV Be a PC? If the consumer electronics side of the world ignores how quickly the PC side progresses, it does so at its own peril. Multimedia PCs with TV tuners and PVRs are looking better all the time. |
PC World
June 2004
Rex Farrance |
Video Converter Preserves Memories Plextor's ConvertX transfers analog video into superb digital copies. |
BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Larry Armstrong |
Supersize Your Set-Top Box You can boost the hard drive on personal video recorders. Just buy a kit. |
Home Theater
July 2006
Chris Chiarella |
Apple Mac mini with Intel Core Duo Processor While this is an impressive first step for Apple, they still need to provide an integrated DVR, more HD options, and perhaps a more workable video-on-demand business model before they can become a viable alternative to the competition. |
