Jafo232
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Good luck, but I do believe the recording for your own personal use has already be addressed.
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2 edits |  said by Jafo232  :Good luck, but I do believe the recording for your own personal use has already be addressed. If HBO was allowed to legally block off recording of their SVOD content(as opposed to their usual HBO channels, which is not the content being discussed here), I would see that as being anti-consumer and would refuse to use their content(both subscription and otherwise). If they actually went thru with this, it would hurt their business and profits. Not a very smart move.
SVOD defined:»www.ncta.com/Docs/PageContent.cfm?pageID=107
Subscription Video on Demand, or SVOD, is a Video on Demand service offered at a flat (subscription) price that provides viewers with unlimited access to select programs from the libraries of featured cable networks. In other words, not their regular channels, but the HBO VOD offerings which comes as part of a pkg when subscribing to their regular scheduled channels. And I don't know about all cable systems, but COMCAST doesn't allow you to record any VOD content now with their DVRs. I guess HBO is concerned about people using their own instead of the cable company supplied DVRs.
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yeabut
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Yea, but their worried about the morons who put it on the internet, make copies of the whole season and give it to friends...etc. |
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Jafo232
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Yea, but their worried about the morons who put it on the internet, make copies of the whole season and give it to friends...etc.
And that is new how? Pirating is already illegal, passing further laws will not make it any more illegal.
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ogar
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Does HBO not realize that movies come to DVD first.
The DVD can be converted to an MP4 and posted to the internet. |
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yzerman
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BillTager
join:2000-09-20
Charlotte, NC
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said by ogar :Does HBO not realize that movies come to DVD first. The DVD can be converted to an MP4 and posted to the internet. Though the brief article linked in the headline didn't specifiy it, I have a feeling this may be intended to keep their original programing from being recorded. I'm sure they make a ton of cash on DVD releases of The Sopranos, SFU, The Wire [BEST CRIME DRAMA EVER], etc.)
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chudel
join:2002-01-20
Pineville, NC | reply to Jafo232
What will DirecTV do? That's the premise of their video on demand service - download it to the PVR when you're sleeping and then when you wake up, ta da! |
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Mizzat
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Gready! Stop charge $100+ for a copy of a show people pay a subscription for anyway! CDs and DVDs are so over priced, if they lowered to price to something a bit more realistic the RIAA and HBO probably wouldn't be compaining so much. I'd rather have the artist designed CD than a "is it live or is it memorex" in my CD case. |
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Kearnstd
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yea the Startrek DVD sets are horridly expensive for a season(not HBO but still) there is no way any one season of a show is worth 75-100 bucks, the show should be paid for at the time it airs weather its ads(stuff like Startrek) or subscriptions(HBO, etc). they only cost this much because buying at these prices is the only legal way.
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richardpor
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Portland, OR | reply to BillTager
HBO had made available to subscribers like me video on demand streamed the entire season of Rome on the fist day
I can see where pirating can become a serious problem. |
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IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | reply to Jafo232
I recently cancelled HBO, they are way beyond their best by date. DVRs a re great I've used one for several years. Any channel which tries to prohibit them will fall badly IMHO.
I wud rather spend my HBO money on DVDs. |
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en102
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join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to BillTager
I'm glad I still have a VCR.;) |
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cao1964
join:2000-08-09
Danville, PA | reply to yzerman
DA, keep up with the conversation. |
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tc1uscg
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1 edit | reply to TKJunkMail
No big deal.. outputting the sig from your digital cable box to a DVD burner or other DVR defeats this anyway, legit or not.  |
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tc1uscg
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1 edit | reply to Jafo232
said by yeabut :
Yea, but their worried about the morons who put it on the internet, make copies of the whole season and give it to friends...etc.
And that is new how? Pirating is already illegal, passing further laws will not make it any more illegal
Good one..
I got HBO with my CC hookup/deal. To be honest.. HBO doesn't have crap on anyway. Go Encore.. |
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Big Dawg 23
join:2002-03-27
Northfield, MN | reply to en102
They still make VCR's???? Why don't you roll back to Betamax. I have been using a DVR for 5 years and will never go back. With Charter it is like Comcast and you can not record VOD. I am free to record HBO Channels which I do and then delete. |
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Jmartz
join:2000-07-20
Tenafly, NJ
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HBO on Demand is offered for FREE on just about every Cable System that carries it... so with your subscription, you'd get to watch the movies on there whenever you want to... so recording from that channel really is not necessary.
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Pirate515
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said by yeabut :
Yea, but their worried about the morons who put it on the internet, make copies of the whole season and give it to friends...etc. Yes, and how is prohibiting recording of their stuff onto DVR is going to stop that? I can guarantee that this upcoming season's episodes of "The Sopranos" will show up on eDonkey/BT/Newsgroups a few minutes after they finish airing on HBO.
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said by Big Dawg 23 :They still make VCR's???? Why don't you roll back to Betamax. I have been using a DVR for 5 years and will never go back. With Charter it is like Comcast and you can not record VOD. I am free to record HBO Channels which I do and then delete. The point he was making was even if DVR's get blocked from recording, then a VCR can still record the show. That recording can be converted just as easy and just as good of quality as a DVR recording. I can just hook up my computer directly to the satellite or cable coax and record it and converted to mpeg1-4 on the fly.
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