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digital video recorder

American  

noun

  1. See DVR.


Etymology

Origin of digital video recorder

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

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That’s not inexpensive, especially after you factor in the added expense of an external hard drive, which is required if you want the digital video recorder to actually record.

From The Verge • Jan. 5, 2022

His father is the executive chairman of WinView Games and the former president and chief executive of TiVo, the digital video recorder company.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2017

Yet even with a digital video recorder and on-demand services that enable her to watch on her own schedule, there’s not enough time to see everything on her list.

From Washington Times • Feb. 4, 2015

Subscriptions run between $8 and $12 a month, and that fee includes a cloud-based digital video recorder.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2014

Those antennas feed the broadcast programming to a digital video recorder, which then plays the programming back to subscribers on demand.

From Washington Post

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