Posted by Mike on 06/08/07 23:06

"guv" <guv69@msn.com> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:30:24 +0100, Peter
> <peter@SPAMMERSGOTOHELL.allblue.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:39:50 +0100, "Mike" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>are these the same thing? a digital video recorder?
>>
>>Well, as I understand it, PVR is a subset of DVR.
>>
>>A PVR (personal video recorder) records digitally (typically onto a
>>hard drive), and is therefore a DVR (digital video recorder). However,
>>there are other forms of DVR - for example, those which record video
>>onto disc (DVD-R etc) or tape (digital video cassette).
>>
>>OK, so who's going to tell me I've got it all wrong?
>
> I would say thats about right - but add that a PVR in reality allows
> scheduled programming to be recorded.

thanks both although it seems odd and still makes no sense to me unless i am
just being thick.
personal video recorder records on to harddisk, digital video recorder
records onto dvdr.
the naming makes no sense or suggestion of this.
if anything it should be the other way round, personal video recorder
implies this would be to dvd-r etc since this it is portable(personal).
what about a player which records to both - a pdvr :/

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