said by fAcEtIOUs:This might be interesting depending on what they charge per month for the service. A DVR can run anywhere from $10 to $20 per month for
each DVR from a cable company. But a hosted server could be used from multiple TVs without having a DVR on each TV.
It would also depend on whether they allow fast forwarding thru commercials or not. A service that doesn't do that would be pretty worthless for most people.
Also with a networked DVR service, you are subject to the same problems people have with VOD - and that is all the available channels available at a node for VOD can be used up by neighbors and you may get an error msg that you can't play back your recording when you want to. Of course, a good deployment of SDV could mitigate this problem. It may be PPV like some VOD content is and there will system limits like channel over load and more.
