Watch out TiVo, there's a DiVa in the wings.
The DiVA (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc
Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Internet Video Audio) is the first digital video
recorder See DVR. to use Windows Media Video See Windows Media formats. 9 to record television programming
directly onto a CD or DVD. Taking advantage of WMV9's ability to
deliver almost three times the video storage of MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 (and twice as much
as MPEG4), DiVA lets you record more than 11 hours of television
programming onto a DVD, or almost two hours on a CD.
DiVA also lets home video buffs record their CDs of home movies
using Windows Movie Maker 2 and play them back directly on DiVA without
a time-consuming conversion to MPEG2.
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