The best way to describe a digital video recorder is to call it a VCR that doesn’t use tapes and provides information that you find in a TV Guide. Although several companies produce different styles of digital video recorders, they all contain some of the same features. The DVR is a small computer with only one task, to digitally record video. Each recorder contains a hard drive ranging in size from 30 GB up to 120 GB, depending on the length of video the recorder holds. Using current video compression technology the recorder can hold roughly 1 hour per GB, using the lowest quality grade. In addition to recording shows like a VCR would be abl

e to do, the DVRs can pause live TV by digitally recording television as it is watched. For example, you would like to get a drink in the middle of a football game. No problems with a DVR, just pause the TV then resume play when you return. You can then catch up with live TV during the commercial breaks. With all these features the viewer can rewind, pause, and fast-forward (up to “live” state) television as they watch.

One of the most noticeable features of each recorder is its software. The TiVo software allows a viewer-selected program to be set on "Season Pass", which means that program will be recorded by TiVo for every episode, even if during the season the date and time slot changes. It is also possible to omit program re-runs in the Season Pass, so you won't waste space with re-runs of any episode. Another TiVo software feature is called the "Wish List," which allows you to search by actor, team, topic, hobby, etc. and then record those programs. Being able to actually pause and rewind live television broadcast programs is another feature of TiVo's capabilities. This feature is called "trick play."

TiVo best describes the DVR technology, “TiVo, TV your way.” As digital movies and television programs are viewed to an increasing share of consumers, they are merging with other mediums such as: video games, internet video, and music into one uniform stream of digital content. The distribution channels for that content – cable TV, satellite, and the internet – are widening into one big source to your home.

The direction of the DVR seems to head in the direction of integration. When these units first came out, they were sold as a DVR unit alone. After a few years, they started marketing the DVR in combination with a satellite receiver. The DVR company with the help of Di

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