The digital video recorder has become a must-have appliance, according to a survey released by NDS, a digital pay TV technology solution provider. More than 70 percent of consumers who currently own a DVR told surveyors that they could not live without it. Researchers queried more than 1,000 DVR owners in the U.S., UK, Australia and Italy in July 2008, asking them to rank the DVR in terms of relative importance among their household appliances.
