Amazon’s Fire TV companion DVR, the Fire TV Recast, is available today to the public, after previously having been only offered for pre-order. The new device offers a way for Fire TV owners to easily ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

In last week’s column, I wrote about how ATSC 3.0 threatens over-the-air DVR as we know it. By allowing for encryption and DRM on local broadcasts, the new standard could lead to new restrictions on ...

The Amazon Fire TV Recast is a wacky gadget. It’s not wacky in that it looks weird. (It’s just a simple black box.) It’s also not wacky because it does wacky stuff. (It’s a DVR for over-the-air TV.) ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

As the cost of streaming TV services keeps climbing, now’s a great time to revisit an antenna and over-the-air DVR as part of your cord-cutting strategy. We’ve long recommended Nuvyyo’s Tablo DVRs as ...

The good: The Amazon Fire TV Recast antenna DVR doesn’t charge any monthly fees. Its sophisticated program guide fits live TV channels seamlessly into the Fire TV interface. Setup is easy and out of ...

Boxee on Tuesday announced a $99 Boxee TV set-top device that combines Internet streaming video and audio apps, dual tuners for antenna-based and basic-cable TV reception and a $15-per-month unlimited ...

TiVo, the company that popularized the DVR starting back in 1999, has a new unit aimed at cord-cutters who watch TV with an antenna. But unlike Amazon's new, lower-priced Recast DVR, the Bolt OTA DVR ...

The DVR has always been a tool to record TV shows and play them back, to watch on the television. Amazon changes that. Its Fire TV Recast DVR, out Nov. 14, will re-imagine how you think of a DVR. Yes, ...

I just got a quick demo of the Amazon Fire TV Recast. It’s a shoebox-sized thing you can put in your home to have a DVR that works with over-the-air channels that it receives via antenna and displays ...

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