lml2000
Whazzup
join:2000-08-17
Los Angeles, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to justin
Re: This is what ADSL was designed for!
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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