For a certain kind of cord-cutter, combining over-the-air broadcasts and cable channels into a single DVR has always been the dream scenario. While we’ve seen several attempts in the past—including ...

At this year's CES, Cisco unveiled new functionality that will let cable operators roll out new services such as cloud-based TV recording. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

There’s a new way to cut the cord, and for do-it-yourself nerds like me, it might be the best way, too. SiliconDust is best known for its series of HDHomeRun DVR devices that you hook up to a hard ...

That hurts, even $5 a month, because Cable Quitters are also Cost Cutters. You won’t like this, either: Tablo also needs an external hard disk drive (up to 2 terrabytes, up to 500 hours of HD ...

Cable TV and TiVo go together like peanut butter and jelly, or at least they did until now. The company that, for all intents and purposes, invented the DVR has, after 14 years, released one ...

We currently have cable (Uverse). We also have Prime and Netflix. We currently watch (literally) about 4 shows a week on cable, mostly PBS for the kid. We would like to not have cable because we are ...

As more and more TV viewers cut the cable for the wealth of other options, one feature that’s often missing from the new home entertainment configuration is a DVR. Nuvyyo Inc. attempts to fill that ...

U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Justice Department to look at the issue of whether cable operators can deliver networked DVR services. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...

Tivo’s latest DVR brings a software overhaul and voice search, but it still feels tethered to the past. As time goes by, TiVo gets harder to love. The cable-box DVRs for which TiVo serves as an ...

Now that Microsoft has announced it's through with Windows Media Center, what options do you have left to build your own machine for recording, organizing and watching TV? A new one ready to enter the ...

As far as watching TV goes, the experience provided by a traditional cable provider is shit. Slow hardware, clunky interfaces, unwanted bundled channels. Streaming services are slowly replacing all of ...