remember the video cassette recorder vcr that allowed us to record audio and video from a television broadcast well today technology has come a long way with personal video recorder pvr or digital video recorder dvr technology which has changed the way viewers around the world enjoy broadcast with its youcanseeitall possibilities users can now pause record playback rewind and fast forward television programs at leisure dvrs come with highdefinition technology promising to revolutionize the way we have been watching television they make use of different software applications that facilitate in the recording of tv content and allow transferring realtime data to hard disk memory card usb flash drive and even external devices like pen drive or external memory stick the magic box dvr is a small apparatus attached with the tv set and can work independently once the commands are fed these also have inbuilt wifi and bluetooth facility that allow recorded programs to be viewed on smartphone or laptop while sitting at a good distance from the dvr box my cousin living in us sent me a dvr i just had to make some basic changes in its hardware to make it suitable for indian television sets now whenever i am out i fix the program to record my daily soaps and live talent shows surabhi mishra 32 a homemaker and resident of mohali told toi dvrs fall under the category of consumer electronics goods and are also famously known as personal video recorder however the technology is slowly but gradually picking up in india as the market right now is only confined to the dual boxes offered by directtohome service dth and local cable operators somesh ghai who sells imported dvrs in chandigarh and punjab revealed in india consumers are dependent only on directtohome services or cable operators that offer dual boxes with stb set top box cards that allow recording of tv contents but there are almost negligible independent operators that offer dvrs dual boxes do not match dvrs as the latter come with plethora of options and features nevertheless the dvr market is very big and has a lot of potentialavailable for free many dvr applications and software are available free of cost for various platforms like linux mac os android windows mediaportal and cyberlink however some advanced versions of these applications are paid where customers can buy monthly or yearly packages at very nominal ratesprivacy concerns despite of the fact that dvr is one of the most userfriendly technology concerns have been expressed over privacy while downloading and recording data the dvrs also send the trends of viewing habits of the users including details of everything that was watched like time content and channel to the companies it can also transmit details like how many times a particular scene or episode was replayed by the user dvr companies in the us and europe had received flak from various sections when in 2009 they made information public on how many times the users had