Canadians adopting personal TV technologies in disorderly fashion: report

TORONTO – Canadian consumers are adopting a multiple of competing technologies to personalize their TV viewing experience, according to the Personal TV: Anytime, Anywhere a Media Technology Monitor (MTM) syndicated report released Wednesday by BBM. The report also found: • Despite the proclamation that personal video recorders (PVRs) may bring an end to TV as it is today, only a fraction of Canadian homes have them and few intend to buy one. • The adoption of DVD recorders is nearly three times higher than the PVR, but the rate of recording TV programs resembles a VCR rather than a PVR. •...