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TV Finds That Mortal Foe, DVR, Is a Friend After All

In what may seem a media business version of the Stockholm syndrome, television network executives have fallen in love with a former tormentor: the digital video recorder. DVRs have made “House,” with Hugh Laurie, a bigger hit. Full Article at The New York Times

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