nDVR: Network Recording for Live TV Catch Up

Vodlix nDVR, or network DVR, addresses the fundamental problem of linear television: the schedule. A live channel airs whether or not anyone is free to watch, so a program broadcast at four is lost to the viewer who gets home at nine. Network recording removes that constraint, letting viewers watch what already aired on their own time. For IPTV and live TV operators, nDVR is what allows a linear channel to compete with on demand services for attention.

Giving a channel a memory in Vodlix is a configuration step. When you add a live channel, you provide its stream URL, its recording source and its program guide feed. Fill in the recording URL and the channel gains a past that viewers can browse and play from the guide. No additional infrastructure is required from your team. Enabling nDVR is part of channel setup rather than a separate project.

With Vodlix nDVR, catch up lives inside the program guide viewers already use. A viewer scrolls back through the EPG and starts a program that has already aired, without learning a separate catch up destination or a different interface. Recorded programs appear in the guide alongside live and upcoming ones, on web, mobile and TV. Keeping catch up in the guide means viewers discover and use it naturally, which drives the engagement nDVR is meant to create.

Vodlix nDVR respects channel rights. Recording is enabled per channel, so you turn it on only where you hold the rights to store and replay content. Each channel advertises what it supports, and viewers are never offered a catch up option that cannot work. This keeps your service compliant with broadcaster and distributor agreements while still offering catch up wherever it is allowed. Rights aware recording is what makes nDVR usable in a licensed environment.