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...killer application on mobile phones will be the reception of digital TV and radio,'' says Frontier founder and chief executive Anthony Sethill. And there's more in store. Frontier is adding digital recording to a chip it makes for televisions, so that it acts like a personal video recorder (PVR); a version should be available for many British customers starting in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Future Focus | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

Retinal surgeons will eventually be able to administer the most effective therapy to people, diminishing the chance of PVR development...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Make Eye Surgery Safer | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...gene therapy combats a disease called proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), which strikes around ten percent of people who undergo surgery for a detached retina, said Andrius Kazlauskas, an associate professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Make Eye Surgery Safer | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...patients who develop PVR, a membrane grows on top of the retina following surgery and contracts, Kazlauskas said...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Make Eye Surgery Safer | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...music industry, TiVO allows us to essentially create our own television stations, with only the shows we want to watch, whenever we want. But more importantly, TiVO gives us the technology to skip over commercials. In fact, an Ad Age article recently reported that 72.3 percent of all PVR users already zip through most commercials, Britney Spears’ salacious Pepsi spots notwithstanding. It’s a boon for viewers, but a setback for the already-slumping advertising industry...

Author: By Michelle Kung, | Title: That’s Advertainment | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

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