Hard disk-based personal video recorders have the capacity to store large quantities of video contents. A personal video recorder serving one household may have to cater for the diverse entertainment tastes imposed by different family members. Timer event programmed video recordings have a tendency to accumulate and it is difficult to access large video collections on current generation persona...

Digital television and digital video recorders (DVRs) open up new possibilities for interactive television (iTV) advertising. Little is known about whether iTV advertising will be more effective than traditional linear TV advertising and what iTV ad models are more effective than others. This paper summarises the few studies that have been published so far. However, the main contribution of thi...

Recent technological advancements such as cloud based digital video recording services and advertisement-skipping services are threatening copyright holders’ business models more than ever. This paper introduces an economic model to analyze court rulings on the personal fair use of video recording technologies. Although personal video recorders might have been beneficial for copyright holders i...

Introduction: Despite several interventions, HIV/AIDS continued global leading cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in developing countries including Ethiopia. Aim: This study was aimed at assessing the risks of HIV infection and conditions after ART initiation among people living with HIV/AIDS at Zewditu Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods: An ethnographic study was conducted us...

The creative industries have frequently expressed concern that they can’t compete with freely available copies of their content. Competing with free is particularly concerning for movie studios, whose content may be more prone to single-use consumption than other industries such as music. This issue has gained renewed importance recently with the advent of new digital video recording technologi...

In [CKF04], we have reported on our concept of a peer-to-peer extension to the popular video disk recorder (VDR) [Sch04], the Distributed Video Disk Recording (DVDR) system. The DVDR is a collaboration system of existing video disk recorders via a peer to peer network. There, the VDRs communicate about the tasks to be done and distribute the recordings afterwards. In this paper, we report on le...

The convergence era has begun raising the need for intelligent assistance in the large amount of multimedia content already available in the home environment. In this paper we present a Personal Video Recorder that exploits meta-data obtained from a service provider or locally generated, to provide users with profile-based filtering and innovative user-friendly video browsing modalities. Its us...