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  • noun Plural form of PVR.

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Examples

  • We've had devices we call PVRs in this country for some time now, but they aren't PVRs in the very strictest sense.

    Crave at CNET UK 2009

  • DVRs (also called PVRs -- personal video recorders) let you record TV in digital format to watch at your convenience.

    Crave: The gadget blog 2008

  • Earlier this week, Macrovision bought Mediabolic for about $43 million, hoping to extend its copyright protection and digital rights business into new digital devices such as PVRs and set-top boxes.

    Brazil Orders YouTube Shut Down 2007

  • Traditional broadcasters have been “wrestling with technologies such as PVRs (personal video recorders) which allow viewers to take more control over what and when they watch” but “IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) has the potential to disrupt that even more,” the BBC continues.

    Web-like, broadband TV 2005

  • Traditional broadcasters have been “wrestling with technologies such as PVRs (personal video recorders) which allow viewers to take more control over what and when they watch” but “IPTV (Internet Protocol TV ) has the potential to disrupt that even more,” the BBC continues.

    Web-like, broadband TV 2005

  • The technology enables people to access HDTV content from different sources such as PVRs, cable and satellite receivers, IPTV and Blu-ray players in any room in the house and view it on a TV, PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet device.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • An integrated on-chip loop through function greatly simplifies STB designs for multi-tuner applications such as PVRs, media servers/gateways, and televisions supporting picture-in-picture.

    Engadget HD 2010

  • In this day of PVRs and time shifting that hardly is the earth-shattering faux pas it might have been, but still … I sort of knew the new series was coming, but I had tried to avoid getting caught up in any hype, hoping I could watch it objectively.

    2010 April « By Tor's Words Of Wisdom 2010

  • Undercover investigators for Which? visited electrical stores including Comet and Currys and asked specialist questons about televisions and PVRs

    Electrical goods store staff 'lack basic knowledge' 2011

  • Only eight of the 154 stores visited were rated as excellent for knowledge of TVs and PVRs – none of which were Currys or Comet.

    Electrical goods store staff 'lack basic knowledge' 2011

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