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Tuesday March 28, 2006 8:39 pm
Remote Storage PVR
It’s hard to imagine watching television without the use of a PVR. Whether it be a set-top box provided to you by your cable/satellite provider, or a media center of some kind, the ability to easily record your favorite shows (and skip the endless commercials) is quite liberating. Cablevision, who services areas of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is testing a system that would allow subscribers to utilize PVR functionality, but rely on off-site storage at Cablevision’s facilities. Existing set-top boxes would continue to be used, thereby eliminating the cost of PVR units, and the necessary service call required to install them. Hypothetically speaking, with all content stored remotely, Cablevision would have complete control over what you could record and when you could record it. Control eerily similar in nature to the broadcast flag.
Current plans are for the system to go live by the end of the year (with a paltry 45-hours of recording capacity).
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| Cablevision via Newsday
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