Penguin
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Acronym for Personal Video Recorder I think.

A computer that lets you record TV shows to its harddisk, in a digital format, for later viewing on TV or on a PC. Can also do time shifting (removal of advertisements)

  • Tivo is an example of a commercial PVR
  • MythTv and Freevo are OSS ones