For a certain kind of cord-cutter, combining over-the-air broadcasts and cable channels into a single DVR has always been the dream scenario. While we’ve seen several attempts in the past—including ...

Covering home audio and video, Matthew Moskovciak helps CNET readers find the best sights and sounds for their home theaters. Sony's pair of high-definition DVRs are the first models available with ...

This DVR software for cord cutters justifies its premium price with features you won’t find elsewhere. Channels DVR is a service that caters to the pickiest of cord cutters. No other cord-cutting DVR ...

As far as watching TV goes, the experience provided by a traditional cable provider is shit. Slow hardware, clunky interfaces, unwanted bundled channels. Streaming services are slowly replacing all of ...

There’s a new way to cut the cord, and for do-it-yourself nerds like me, it might be the best way, too. SiliconDust is best known for its series of HDHomeRun DVR devices that you hook up to a hard ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Digital video recorders are a double-edged sword for the broadcast ...

Tablo’s plug-and-play DVR delivers native broadcast quality, but loses some features along the way. For the past few years, our recommendation of Tablo as the best over-the-air DVR for cord cutters ...

We currently have cable (Uverse). We also have Prime and Netflix. We currently watch (literally) about 4 shows a week on cable, mostly PBS for the kid. We would like to not have cable because we are ...