How to Use DVR in a Sentence

DVR

noun

• Let’s throw it to DVR for that Pirates update.
  — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 13 May 2026
• There is no longer any mention of DVR hardware on the company's website.
  — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• But streaming has usurped DVR use as a way to watch TV after the fact and is now the path to big audiences for network shows.
  — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 5 Mar. 2026
• All shows grow with streaming and DVR playback, but the series at the top of the seven-day rankings usually start off in fairly good shape as well.
  — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
• About a decade ago, the company launched the Hopper, a DVR that automatically skipped ads.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2025
• The product also integrated its DVR services into the set-top boxes of satellite and cable providers.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
• While that might lead to a lower monthly bill, fans lose certain features like a live channel guide, viewing games from multiple networks at once and a combined DVR.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2025
• Sling Blue offers over 40 channels, 50 hours of DVR storage, and the ability to stream on up to three devices at once.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2026
• Compared with Season 1, its ratings were up 82% on Peacock and 213% on DVR.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
• Sling Orange offers over 30 live channels, 50 hours of DVR storage, and the ability to stream on one device at a time.
  — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2026
• Features will include unlimited DVR, multiview, key plays and fantasy football view.
  — Mike Snider, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
• In recent years, TiVo has shifted their focus from DVR to other digital media technologies.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
• Alongside live channels, the subscription also gets you unlimited DVR, video-on-demand, and Family Share.
  — PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
• In addition to live channels, Fubo Sports will include on-demand video, unlimited DVR and family sharing features.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
• About a decade ago, the company launched the Hopper, a DVR that automatically skipped ads, to the delight of many customers but to the consternation of broadcast networks.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 12 Aug. 2025
• In addition to dropping the live networks, YouTube TV also is removing any DVR library recordings users have made from those networks.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
• Investigators discovered that a crucial part of the home’s elaborate security system — a DVR — was missing, as was a large knife in a butcher block in the kitchen, Diebel said.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
• For comparison, YouTube TV also offers unlimited DVR storage and keeps titles for nine months.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026
• The service is terrific for watching popular TV shows, with broad platform support, strong channel coverage, and DVR features that compare well with the competition.
  — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026
• One potential explanation is that, following Epstein's death, the system could have been reconfigured so that this camera was attached to a different, functioning DVR recorder.
  — Daniel Ruetenik, CBS News, 31 Dec. 2025
• However, the duo redesigned the device as a DVR and began its first public trials and service in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
• The TiVo Edge was the seventh generation TiVo DVR, and was manufactured by Arris.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
• Along with Disney’s live channels, YouTube TV customers’ DVR recordings of the media conglomerate’s programming were removed, as is standard in such disputes.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
• Additionally, Sling Blue comes with streaming access for up to three devices, Sling’s massive library of free on-demand movies and TV shows, a 50-hour online cloud DVR and other perks.
  — Rudie Obias, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
• Subscribers who sign up for one of the new plans will have access to all the product features offered on YouTube TV, including unlimited DVR, the ability to add up to six members on one account, and key plays and multiview.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
• TiVo stopped selling set-top boxes in October, and in the 2024-25 season, only a handful of network series added as many as 2 million viewers via DVR playback in seven days.
  — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 21 Nov. 2025
• As its logo suggests, TiVo prides itself on being a television-with-legs, and its success is evident as the term TiVo was used in the early 2000s as a verb meaning to record program content with a DVR.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
• Third, TiVo and its DVR disrupted the existing relationship between television industry incumbents and the business models and value propositions based on the traditional broadcasting model.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
• Add in viewers who watch via DVR or on demand (either on Hulu or Disney+), and early Nielsen data has the DWTS audience well over 8 million viewers every week, and likely to trend higher by season’s end.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
• TiVo is a digital video recorder (DVR) developed by Teleworld, a company founded by Jim Barton and Mike Ramsay that was later renamed TiVo Inc.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026