Supreme Courts Greenlights Cloud-enabled DVRs
Supreme Courts Greenlights Cloud-enabled DVRs
Posted 07/02/2009 at 5:50am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Cablevision Systems, the 5th largest cable provider in the US, has endured a long legal battle against leading American TV programmers and providers, but now that its legal woes have finally ended, the company has the Supreme Court’s sanction to launch its network DVR system.
A person using the network DVR would be able to record programs without a dedicated, physical DVR box as the programs would be stored on a server maintained by Cablevision. Cablevision had first announced the cloud-enabled technology in 2006, however, it was soon beset and dragged to court by TV programmers and providers. Cablevision is going to roll out a limited preview of the service this summer.
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mkcierw
December 14, 2010 at 11:51pm
yes,it is really very cool.haha:i want own one World of Warcraft gold and wow powerleveling
Narteck
July 02, 2009 at 10:59am
One of the reason this would have been a problem before is for privacy implications. If you are using the cable providers servers for your DVR service then they will know what and how long you are watching programs. Also networks don't make money on the programs that they make for you to watch. It's the 15 mins of ads you watch during the program that generates their income. If the network can't make sure that your forced to watch the ads then why would a company want to buy ads space with them.
nekollx
July 02, 2009 at 8:11am
and just WHY was this "illeagle" to begin with?
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