There's no question that Japan gets all the cool gadgets -- many of which never make it stateside. Well, we have yet another tease for you, in the form of an eight-tuner Toshiba DVR with five ...

Bang & Olufsen, the dumb blonde of the consumer electronics industry, rolled out the HDR 2, a hard disk video recorder that amounts to a PVR that stores 60 hours of standard definition video. It makes ...

STMicroelectronics is sampling its STm8000, a single-chip SoC for the DVD and HDD (hard disk drive) recorder market. The STm8000 offers manufacturers of full DVD recorders, DVRs (digital video ...

For years I have had a DVD/VHS combo player. About a year ago the DVD player died, but I kept using the VHS part of it for watching old videos and recording the occasional movie. Now that died too. I ...

Liteon may have started out as a cheap alternative to the super-expensive DVD recorders of yesteryear, but the LVW-5055 sees the company making a strong statement of intent on performance. This is a ...

Toshiba Corp. will launch this month two digital video recorders (DVRs) that combine HD DVD with high-definition hard-disk drive recording. The RD-A600 and RD-A300 will go on sale in Japan at the end ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sharp Corp <6753.T> said it would launch a Blu-ray high-definition DVD recorder with a 1-terabyte hard disk drive (HDD), the world's largest storage capacity on any Blu-ray recorder, ...

Currently sampling, the STm8000 single-chip, audio-video full-duplex codec is ready for applications in DVD and HDD recorders. The device touts a flexible architecture and includes state-of-the-art ...