Multichannel News has a piece up today about the recent Leichtman Research Group findings that one in five U.S. households now has a DVR. The study goes on to predict that by 2011, 60% of homes will have a DVR.

While market  pioneer TiVo is known for its user-friendly interface, most of these DVRs are not TiVo products, and are coming bundled into Cable, Satellite or IPTV set tops. We’ve spent time using DVRs from all of the major players in these spaces, and uniformly the grid-based interface is almost painful to use in a 500+ channel environment.  We’re firm believers that a motion-sensing remote and related interface would really boost the take rate of the DVR services — and maybe will help boost the usage by those who have them (the study finds that despite this market penetration, 95% of TV viewing is still live).