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. |
