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DVR

American  
  1. digital video recorder: a digital device that records television programs or other video onto a hard disk.


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Set the DVR -stream it -just make sure these old houses are saved.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

When authorities searched the home last month, investigators took a DVR that stores video and other data from the surveillance system.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025

But this month brought a double blow: First, TiVo announced it would no longer sell its physical DVR products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

Some things have changed since then, and some haven’t; I can’t drink coffee that late anymore, and I still don’t know how DVR works.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

We talked about how June’s DVR broke and now she can’t record middle-of-the-night horror movies.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

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