DVR

A digital video recorder (DVR), sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder(PVR), is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive,USB flash drive, SD memory card, SSD or other local or networked mass storage device. The term includes set-top boxes (STB) with direct to disk recording facility, portable media players (PMP) with recording, TV gateways with network and local recordings, recorders (PMR) as camcorders that record onto Secure Digital memory cards and software for personal computers which enables video capture and playback to and from a hard disk drive. Atelevision set with built-in digital video-recording facilities was introduced by LG in 2007, followed by other manufacturers.