justin
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Re: Im ready to buy!
It might be like a TIVO type thing where they stream you the movie and it spools it onto a hard disk. So you can pause and rewind. But not fast forward.
I think it would make more sense to partner with TIVO so they can feed that box the movies and get access to an existing user base. That would be much easier than developing something new and confusing (there is only room for one set-top box on top of the set, so it has to do almost everything, not just play Blockbuster movies).
Of course TIVO is being hacked (with the unwritten approval of the company), so that might worry the industry. |
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dnoyeB
Ferrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI
| If I were TIVO I would certainly allow it to be hacked too. That way you get lots of users who are just getting extra free movies and stuff. But once you feel you got enough of these leeches, you change the protocol or something and hope and prey they sign up ligitimately.
You think they would try that?
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JYoung
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Sherman Oaks, CA | They are already looking into downloading movies to a Tivo or a Replay like unit via the Internet. As broadband becomes more and more the norm, you will see this happen.
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mrichards8
join:2000-10-17
Littleton, CO
| Basically, the movie industry is scared to death of digital technology. They would rather support technologies like Tivo with a limited storage capacity (and subscription fee) than allow more "open" technologies with removable media like recordable DVD to become available. For the past few years, DirecTV equipment has been available that allowed the recording of satellite programs directly to D-VHS tapes with no loss in quality. Recently, however, DirecTV has stopped production of the D-VHS VCRs, and is instead marketing a Tivo/DirecTV combination receiver. I have read that this change was in large measure due to pressure from the movie industry. |
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lml2000
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Los Angeles, CA
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It WILL be a TiVo-like because in order to view the content on demand its has to be stored onsite somewhere, and on the most likely secure medium will be the hard drives of TiVo or Replay that are designed to store digital content is sufficient quantities for VOD viewing. Today's TiVo and Replay stand alone machines will likely disappear in the future as their technology is subsumed into the satellite receiver or digital set-top box where the content is considered "more secure" to the owners/licensors of the content. Today we see the DirecTivo receiver now on the shelves; we've also seen announcement MSOs such as Adelphia, AT&T, Comcast, Cox, & Charter that involve ReplayTV's digital recording device, whose technology will likely be incorporated into future digital set-top cable boxes.
As I see, to no surprise, is the typical glee and disbelief that this technology will ever become available and be sufficiently secure to prevent copyright infringement. I can't comment on how secure the content will be, but its fair to say it will be the intent of the technology to make as secure as possible the digital content stored to prevent copyright infringement. If the risk of copy infringement is sufficiently great, we simply will not see that much digital content available for VOD, at least that content that would command the highest margins to the licensor.
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