Exactly. Especially one without a monthly fee for service. It seems with the storage costs and the processing power here, Amazon could integrate that easily.

Edit: the really interesting part is that when searching for "DVR" in electronics, the first result is this device.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Del...

You mean like this?: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mohu/mohu-channels-pers...

Yes, something like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouView

in North America would be great.