Buying a Digital Video Recorder
With a digital video recorder, you no longer miss your favorite television shows or sports action and instead can watch the recorded feed as and when you get time. That is where the digital video recorder or the DVR is looked at as a great convenience. And with the rising popularity of the same, you will find the market flooded with hundreds of models and specifications. This usually creates confusion as to which model to choose and one wrong decision means landing up with a DVR which in the first place you never wanted to buy.
For the benefit of our users, we are herewith providing the buying advice for a DVR. What you need to do is to shortlist a product according to the budget and features you would be requiring. Here is the list of some must have features you should consider while buying.
Pause Live television: is the most overvalued feature in the DVR technology. The DVRs assign a definite fraction of the hard disk drive to a live TV buffer. This buffer continually keeps recording and keeps hold of the program that has been viewed for the past hour and the buffer is emptied each time you change the channel.
Quality and Capacity: with most DVRs you will get a capacity of recording 30 to 320- hours of programs. It should be noted that a DVR can record a program at changeable levels of quality, that is, the advertised capacity usually refers to the number of hours it can record at the lowest quality setting.
Search Tools: help you to search the programs that you have recorded according to the genre, actors, director’s etc. It also allows you to specify which programs to record with respect to time, program title etc.
Season Pass: lets you record the entire season of a show from a particular channel, including First-Runs, Repeats, and All Episodes.
Wish-List: refers to stored searches. These stored searches are categorized types based upon the actor, director, keyword, title and category.
Connection: with most of the DVRs is possible with a traditional cable, a digital cable, satellite TV, or even combinations of these.
All these features help you get the most future ready DVR.
