The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a blow to the television networks when it declined to hear a case about a digital video recorder technology, opening the gate for wider use of DVR systems. The ...

While no one predicts the end of film ads on TV, time-shifting is one reason why film-marketing dollars have increasingly flown to the Internet in search of real "engagement" in a fragmented media ...

About 6% of TV commercials in the U.S. are fast-forwarded because of DVRs, reflecting about $5 billion in what some consider wasted spending. By the end of 2011, about 16% of commercials will be ...

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Why did ABC Sales President Mike Shaw take such a hard line at the upfront about charging for ratings generated by DVR viewing? Because later this season, 20% of viewing--or more--for top shows like ...

Nielsen Media Research Inc. will begin limited tracking next week of what the nation's television audience records on digital video devices for later viewing. Nielsen, whose TV viewership ratings ...

A look at Nielsen's new "live plus three" ratings for local markets shows that 90% of time-shifted viewing occurs within three days of broadcast, and DVRs boost viewing by 21% in the key 18-to-49 demo ...

NEW YORK - Starting next week, the company that measures what people watch on television will also follow what they record on DVRs to watch later. The move by Nielsen Media Research is a reflection of ...

Hulu features unlimited DVR features for the company, and it aims to bring the feature widely available for users to record live TV channels and cable streams in the subscription. The setup here is ...

I recently came into a free analog DVR that is mostly useless these days because nothing is broadcast over analog. The DVR in question is a HP AVC-3610HP: It plugs into a PC via USB and interfaces ...

Although I’ve tried on many occasions to articulate the difference between TiVo, Tablo, HDHomeRun, and other over-the-air DVR solutions, one can only do so much with written descriptions. Over-the-air ...