justin
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Re: This is what ADSL was designed for!
You know that would be nice, but I bet they don't do it. TIVO is well and truly cracked open by Linux enthusiasts and blockbuster would have nightmare visions of every movie in their catalog getting passed around in high quality form on the net thanks to TIVO people with screwdrivers and determination.
It would be nice to see them get together with sony and pump the data into the back of the PS2. |
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lml2000
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| Interesting comments, Justin. I, for one, am convinced, and have been for over a year now, that stand alone TiVo and Replay boxes will be non-existent in not-so-distant future. Where will they go? Subsumed into a satellite receiver (ie. DirecTiVo) or MSO-provided digital set-top box. Why? Content security.
I cannot imagine any studio licensing the distribution of its most valued content over the Internet in digital format for all TiVo-like hacker to copy onto hard drives then illegally and freely distribute over the Internet much akin to a Napster or Scour-like setup. So, while TiVo hackers are able to copy what is recordable today, free of restrictions, they will likely not have that same ease when murch more valued content, such as that delivered via pay-per-view will be controlled and monitored if delivered in VOD format.
Some current news on this subject. http://www.multichannel.com/daily/14d.shtml
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JYoung
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Due to the technical requirements of VOD, I think that downloading the movie (perhaps in some type of encrypted MPEG 4 format) would be a more wide reaching solution.
A few months back, I shared a flight with a gentleman who works for an Entertainment distribution business. He was coming back from the broadcastor's convention in New Orleans and was telling me that one of the hot topics was delivering movies over the Internet to the consumer. He told me that one option was downloading it to a TIVO/Replay Type box (not the TIVO/Replay that's sold but the same idea).
Of course anything that can be downloaded could be cracked but......
perhaps they'll feed it to an X Box instead.....
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