Sony Electronics Inc.'s PlayStation and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox game consoles may include digital video recording (DVR) technology in future versions, panelists said during a discussion at the Consumer Electronics Show here in Las Vegas Thursday. Despite lagging sales, DVR will be a hot consumer technology in the future, said speakers on a panel devoted to investigating future consumer electronics products and technology trends. DVRs make it possible to record and watch a program by skipping, or "zapping" advertisements. TiVo Inc., ReplayTV and Echostar Satellite Corp. currently dominate the DVR market. In addition to Microsoft and Sony bundling DVR technology into future game consoles, cable companies will be a major player in the DVR market as they add digital video recording capability into set-top boxes, panelists said.
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