Digital video recorder
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A digital video recorder, also referred to as a personal video recorder particularly in Canadian and British English, is an electronic device that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, US
Back view of a TiVo Series2 5xx-generation unit
Side view of an LCD monitor with built-in DVR
Underside of a VESA-compatible DVR
Embeddable DVR with incremental encoder interface for position tracking
Set-top box
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A set-top box, also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and d
Digital video recorder
…video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device. The term includes set-top boxes (STB) with direct to disk recording, portable media players and TV gateways with recording capability, and digital camcorders. Personal computers can…
A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC
A consumer Palcom DSL-350 satellite-receiver; the IF demodulation tuner is on the bottom left, and a Fujitsu MPEG decoder CPU is in the center of the board. The power supply is on the right.
A Sky Q digital satellite receiver set-top box
An older digital cable TV set-top box