lml2000
Whazzup
join:2000-08-17
Los Angeles, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to justin
Re: Im ready to buy!
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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Regards,
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