Unlike HDTVs, home video recording has not evolved significantly since the arrival of the digital recorders. While newer visual technologies the likes of LED and laser backlighting have been developed for TVs, the DVR camp has been relatively conservative, chasing numbers with models offering ever-increasing storage capacity. A much belated breakthrough is definitely in order and the introduction of HDMI-CEC (more on this later) is just a small incremental step toward that direction. The new LG RH-299H DVR is an example of the next-generation with such capability. ...

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