| reply to hawgcaller
Not likely. If the information is stored on the servers, so too are the details of what's being viewed. What's to say the cable cos don't meta the commercials in such a way that your FF/Pause functions are disabled whenever a commercial is being displayed? Theoretically they could do that now on a channel-by-channel basis, but then some newer machines allow for direct time skips - basically, you can jump to a particular frame without needing to FF. Storing the information on the servers removes that capability.
All paranoia aside, the only way I would support this would be if the cable cos invested the money to store EVERY show at EVERY time on EVERY day and retained them for 1 week. That would allow me to go back in time and view a show that I might have missed; maybe I didn't know it was on or something.
Other than that, I think this is a bad idea. |
