Raising the DVR bar: the SHR 8162 digital video recorder from Samsung What our experts say Few if any DVRs would win prizes for their looks but that’s hardly an issue for a device that can easily remain out of sight for most of its working life and where function is vastly more important than form. However, the runaway success of digital video recorders has meant that the market has grown at an unprecedented rate. There are now several hundred models available, with more arriving almost every day, jostling for shelf-space. To complicate matters further for end-users and specifiers the similarities are often more than just skin-deep. Many low-end and mid-range models are based around a relatively small number of common components, which includes hard drives, memory and processing chips, power supply modules and so on. The Wire Saison 4 Vostfr Rapidshare Downloads.

The differences are there once you delve deeper into the feature sets and performance claims, but in this increasingly competitive market manufacturers are starting to think about more obvious ways of getting their products to stand out from the crowd. Not just another box No one could accuse the Samsung SHR 8162 of being just another black box, and it is very difficult to ignore, especially in the dark, thanks to a large and subtly illuminated central jog/shuttle dial. Okay, so it has caught our attention, but there has to be more to it than that?