08 Oct 09 Programming Features and Saving Time
Most DVR tuners distributed with satellite television subscriptions'and almost all of them purchased for a higher price than the standard equipment'contain programming features that allow users to free themselves from their televisions and to watch when they can instead of altering their schedules to meet the needs of the broadcasters. This is radically changed the way people interact with their televisions today and this sort of viewing-on-demand technology is likely to keep increasing in popularity as the years move forward.
Recording a show is the most obvious way to alter the television schedule to suit one's needs. This, of course, has been popular since the advent of Beta and VHS VCRs in the late 1970's. While those devices are technologically much less sophisticated than what's currently on the market, they did make it possible for viewers to watch television shows at times of their own choice for the first time in history. Today's DVR recorders not only produce much higher-quality recordings, they are far more powerful in how they can be set up.
DVRs are fitted with equipment which is a result of the home computer revolution. As these devices evolved, the amount of information they could display and remember increased. Today, instead of working with three or four buttons and a digital clock to set up an automatic recording session, the viewer actually works directly off the television schedule. This means that one can set up a recording event with one or two button presses instead of by the overly-complex method required of the older model VCRs. Some DVR recorders on the market now are even able to be programmed over one's cellular phone which means that one need not miss a program they forgot to schedule before they headed out for work!
The amount of information these devices can hold is another convenience feature. In the days of video tapes, one could usually fit a few hours of programming on the average cassette if they didn't mind a diminished level of quality due to the slower recording speed. Today, these devices record directly onto a hard drive. This means hundreds of hours of programming can be stored and that the quality is always top of the line. It also means that programs can be erased without ruining the recording medium. Where video tapes decayed with each generation of use, hard drives suffer no loss of quality with repeated recording.
As this technology moves forward, it's likely that more and more of it will center around the use of mobile technology to interact with devices that are designed to stay within the home. This flows quite naturally from the evolution of technology in general which has not only trended towards smaller and smaller devices but toward devices that combine several different functions into one piece of technology. Bridging the gap between one's DVR and their cell phone, for instance, may once have seemed like a very space-age advance but today it is more or less commonplace.
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