Quote from the review at Whining Dog:
“The VCR is dead. The coffin has been ready for many years now. The first nail in the coffin was in the form of DVDs. As this disc format to hold, VHS rentals tailed off quite a bit (look at the popularity of Netflix today as indicator of how well DVDs are doing). The next nail and the one that will probably close the lid for good is the concept of Digital Video Recorders or DVR’s. This concept was made popular by the likes of TiVo and ReplayTV and can now also be found in PC platforms such as ATI All-In-Wonder cards and the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition OS. Today we’re going to take a look at one of the originators of the DVR concept