6 Customers: How to Choose a DVR?

Today’s consumer is no longer asking whether they need hard drive storage for their digital content—they’re asking, how much we can deliver?

—Patrick King, senior VP and GM, Consumer Electronics Business Unit, Seagate Technology1

Like just about every other high-quality consumer electronics (CE) product or service, a good deal of the reason for the maintenance of quality and value of DVRs is the intra-industry competitive forces. Thus, for the consumer looking to choose a DVR for his home (or business), several types of DVRs are available, each with its own promise (and challenges). The consumer does best to attempt to make these different DVR competitors earn the business, and that is best done by the consumer ...

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