Digital Video Recorders as we know them were born almost 25 years ago, with both TiVo and ReplayTV unveiling their initial DVRs at the January 1999 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The technology was a game changer: Before, the time-shifting of TV programming was the domain of tape-based VCRs, which had many technological limitations. Now? You could pause and rewind live TV. Setting a timer to record a show was widely considered so confusing that the nightmare of ‘programming a VCR’ was
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