March 24, 2004

DVRs Eclipse VOD

DVRs Are Top Priority For Both Consumers And Cable Operators

by Josh Bernoff

with Chris Charron, Ayanna Lonian, Charles Q. Strohm

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Consumers want DVR features: skipping commercials, recording all episodes of a show, and pausing live TV. Cable operators also plan to concentrate on DVR, along with HDTV. While this focus makes sense, operators will soon face another problem — knitting together program guides, VOD content, and interactivity into an integrated user interface. And as operators roll out DVRs and HDTV, satellite and consumer electronics companies must add innovations like multiroom DVR and networked entertainment devices.

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