Next Generation Personal Video Recorders
CNET News.com:
...digital video recorders are about to get a boost in features that will allow them to zap several video streams throughout networked homes.
Engineers in the consumer electronics lab of hard-drive maker Maxtor , for example, are working on DVR-type devices that can record or broadcast at least six media streams at a time. That compares to three streams in current DVRs, which are hard-drive-based machines that can record video and temporarily pause live broadcasts. Three-stream machines can simultaneously record two live channels while playing a previously recorded program.
In Boston Andrew Grumet is doing some interesting thinking and prototyping for new ways to use your PVR: RSSTV
Posted by jackhodgson at February 25, 2004 12:27 PM