DVR - Digital Video Recorder

A personal video recorder, sometimes called a DVR (digital video recorder), is a device that can record television content onto its internal memory. This allows for more interactivity from the user, and provides the viewer with a plethora of features.

While watching scheduled TV programming, viewers can pause and rewind live television, record one show while watching another, and use video-on-demand services, just to name a few.

The PVR is comprised of hardware and software located in the set-top box, which serves the purpose of receiving and decoding the digital signal sent to your television. The PVR technology provides interactive features to the user through the use of the interactive program guide, or IPG.