The DVR from 1967
While we all think of TiVo and ReplayTV as having invented the DVR / PVR in the late 1990’s, apparently the first PVR dates back to 1967. PVRWire has an excellent article on the History of the PVR. In the article they talk about the Ampex HS-100, the first commercial PVR. While it may seem primitive by todays standards (it only holds 30 seconds of video!), for the time it was revolutionary.
While we are calling it a DVR (Digital Video Recorder), I’m not sure that that is 100% correct. If you read the article on PVRWire, they say the Ampex HS-100 records to a digital hard disk but in the comments it is noted that while it may be a disk, it is recording analog video, not digital. Either way, it’s amazing to think that there was something like this that long ago.
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