Cheap and plentiful PVRs, as NEC debuts all-in-one set-top chip

Om Malik | Monday, April 21, 2003 | 7:04 AM PT | 0 comments

“Japanese electronics company NEC has unveiled a new all-in-one chip that can act as a digital video broadcast decoder and power next-generation entertainment devices that record to either a DVD or a hard disk,” reports News.com. This could spread the PVRs even more, though no respite for TiVO (though it keeps getting big plugs in most newspapers - I have to give their PR people some props.)

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