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DVDs have replaced videotapes as the medium of choice for prerecorded video, and many households are also recording on DVD. Prices for DVD recorders have dropped below $200 and are still falling, and sales are expected to rise by about 50 percent this year.
But these disc-based recorders face competition from digital video recorders (DVRs), which record TV programs to a computer-like hard drive. Over the past two years, DV-R usage has doubled among satellite-TV subscribers and increased by 50 percent among cable-TV subscribers, according to our latest customer survey on television service. The fact that some DVRs can record high-definition programming gives them ...