While the reasons given – problems with installation, cost and unstylish to home decor – are fairly lame, a not so recent study, conducted between February and August of 2004 by Horowitz Associates for ESPN, found 57 percent of households given DVRs to try, returned them. Perhaps once DVR technology is built into televisions, homeowners won’t have such a style issue with the mammoth sized set in which the DVR is contained.
