Executive Summary
Digital video recorders (DVRs) are—fairly rapidly—taking over most of North American television.
In a handful of words, DVRs are taking over TV in the United States and Canada, because they present such a vast improvement over the viewing of so-called linear, or real time, scheduled TV.
DVRs are also taking over because a number of important drivers are in place, both on the business (or enterprise) side and on the consumer side.
On the business side, DVRs mean money. Often that route is not as direct, and the margins are not as clear and instantaneous, as impatient business people might wish, but they are evident. DVRs cost money to develop as hardware and software systems, indeed, they cost significant money; however, once ...
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