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TiVo DVRs are known for their user-friendly interface and features. This same user-friendly mindset extends to the company's TiVo Glo Premium remotes. The TiVo Glo remote is included with all Series 3 and TiVo HD DVRs. With a few basic instructions you will have your TiVo Glo controlling not just your TiVo but your TV and Stereo in no... more »
High definition television or HDTV is a digital TV broadcast in a higher resolution than SDTV (standard definition television). DVR (digital video recorder) is a device designed to record digital video. A high definition (HD) DVR combines these two elements into one device. Numerous companies manufacture HD DVRs. Both DirecTV and Dish... more »
TiVo is a popular digitial video recording program used to record live television shows and fast forward and rewind through them. TiVo can be equipped on any TV with DVR capabilities and is controlled with a convenient remote that can serve as a type of universal remote. TiVo remotes come set up with your TiVo DVR options and can be... more »
High Definition Television (HDTV) is a digital TV format displaying high-quality images of 1280 by 720 pixels or higher and sound quality that's on par with CDs. This new TV format also offers widescreen display options and surround sound, making for a cinema-like viewing experience. Since 2002, when cable providers first offered the... more »
TiVo is arguably the most recognized brand name in home-entertainment electronics. The device, a digital video recorder (DVR), allows users to record television programming digitally for playback later, or through "time-shifting," where the program can be paused or rewound from live TV. more »
Ushered to the market in 1998, HDTV promised to revolutionize the television experience. Most new sets sold in the United States are HD sets.... more »
High definition, in all its glory, has arrived, giving viewers dazzling, lifelike images with excellent sound, and promising to revolutionize the... more »
A CableCARD is a special-use []
CableCARD is a plug-in card approximately the size of a credit card that allows consumers in the United States to view and record digital cable television channels on digital video recorders, personal computers and televisions without the use of other equipment such as a set top box (STB) provided by a cable television company. The card, provided by the local company for a nominal monthly fee, is a PCMCIA card and looks exactly like those used with laptops.
In technical contexts, "CableCARD" refers more broadly to a set of technologies created by the United States cable television industry in response to requirements by federal governments Telecommunications Act of 1996 that cable companies allow non cable company provided devices to access their networks.
Use of the term CableCARD can be confusing, because some technologies refer not to the physical card, but to a device ("Host") that uses the card. Some CableCARD technologies can be used with devices that have no physical CableCARDs.
Background
The portion of the 1996 Telecom law which resulted in the creation of CableCARDs is known as Section 629, instructing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to:
http://www.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.pdf>"...assure the commercial availability to consumers of multichannel video programming and other services offered over multichannel video programming systems, of converter boxes, interactive communications equipment, and other equipment used by consumers to access multichannel video programming and other services offered over multichannel video programming systems, from manufacturers, retailers, and other vendors not affiliated with any multichannel video programming distributor."
Multichannel video programming refers to cable or satellite television. A driving motivation of this passage was to foster the kind of consumer choices that resulted after the Federal government landmark Carterfone ruling requirin read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD
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