Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to worry about filling up your TiVo with programs or that the hard drive on the box would go south and screw up your viewing plans? That is the dream behind “network DVRs,” where cable TV companies would make the copies for you and save it on their servers.
Cablevision was testing such a system, but for now the plans are on hold after the company lost a legal battle in New York. A bunch of cable networks including Disney and Fox successfully sued to prevent Cablevision from offering the service. It’s basically an unlimited video on demand service, which nearly every cable company offers.
Network DVRs would be cheaper for cable operators to maintain since the storage cost per megabyte is much lower for central servers, and since they wouldn’t send technicians into the field to replace broken down boxes. Customers […]
Published by John Gartner
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