I noticed the other day that PVRwire.com reported that it will be retired by AOL today. Speculation among readers of the blog (see the comments attached to the story) is that the content that has appeared on PVRwire will instead be found on a site similar to EngadgetHD.
AOL owns Engadget through its acquisition of Weblogs, Inc..
I did a quick check and the domains EngadgetDVR.com and EngadgetPVR.com don’t appear to be in use, so it doesn’t appear that the content is just going to move over to its own Engadget-related domain.
The author of the retirement announcement post on PVRwire hints at some announcement that will be made today. Presumably AOL/Weblogs, Inc. intends to consolidate this sort of content into one of their existing TV-related blogs. I’ll try to keep an eye on this.
PVRblog, the niche technology blog that got me started in this business, is still a great source of information. The problem with it is that Matt Haughey and his friends are incredibly busy and they don’t get around to posting articles with the kind of frequency that blogs with full time editors do.
Update: Weblogs, Inc. has decided to publish PVR news and information on TV Squad, a blog devoted to TV industry news and gossip. I’m not sure that there is a fit between these content streams, but I’ll check the TV Squad a few times before I make a final judgement.