Unfortunately the creators of the PVR created a fantastic product but gave retailers a massive headache when they thought of the extraneous product name: PVR!

If you search online you may find - "PVR (Priya Village Roadshow) Cinemas is one of the largest cinema chain in India"  - rest assured this is not what we are selling you!

A PVR 'Personal Video Recorder' (also know as a DTR or DVR) is basically a Freeview box with a built in Hard Drive - allowing you to record Freeview (digital tv) onto the hard drive for future viewing.

PVRs vary by the amount of tuners, size of Hard Drive and whether it has a ESPN (Top UP TV) card slot.

• Tuners: A single tuner PVR will allow you to watch a freeview channel and at the same time pause, rewind and record the single channel.

  A twin tuner does exactly the same but the second tuner allows you to change the channel and watch, record, pause or rewind the second channel whilst the first one is still recording.

• Hard Drive: Hard Drive size varys by model and the PVR naming convention usually incorporates the Hard Drive (HDD) size in its title. ie. PVR160 has a 160GB Hard Drive. The higher the HDD size - the higher amount of recordings you can store.

• ESPN: Some PVRs