[opendtv] Re: News: Users Don't Want VOD To Be C.O.D., Want It Free
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 20:45:44 -0400
Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
> The beauty of the personal recorder approach to time
> shifting is that it creates no cost to the
> distribution system whatsoever and, of course, also
> that it's covered by the fair use law.
I think the almost overwhelming advantage of at least some
personal recorders is that you own and control them. You can skip
commercials at will, or wait a week to finish your movie.
Cable companies will probably have to experiment with various
non-skippable forms of advertising which will likely lower the
value of much VOD during the opening salvos. Much of the
seductive value of VOD to the cable company is probably the false
belief they are still in control somehow. But I think they are
sort of caught between the rights owners and the Tivo owners.
- Tom
> Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>
>
>>The problem is one that i have noted frequently as
>>a major drawback to "Free VOD" services...
>>
>>You can't give away something if it costs you money.
>
>
> True. It costs money for the cable company to enable
> VOD service, not just to install the hardware and
> software but also the bandwidth VOD takes up in their
> cable plant. And it costs money to buy the content
> that is good enough to make people want to even bother
> with VOD. So somehow, those costs have to be
> recouperated.
>
>
>>Unlike PVRs, which are currently protected by the
>>Fair Use rights established in the Betamax decision,
>>cable operators cannot make programming available
>>via their VOD systems without permission form the
>>content owners.
>
>
> Not unlike any other copyright. You also cannot copy
> sections of books, or magazine articles, or paintings,
> and expect to make money selling this stuff without
> permission from the copyright holder. Even if you
> bought the magazine or book. Some web sites are
> quite intolerant of any copying at all, for any
> reason at all, without their permission.
>
> Exceptions seem to be made when this copying is done
> for personal use or for school papers. But even that
> is not always stated explicitly.
>
> The beauty of the personal recorder approach to time
> shifting is that it creates no cost to the
> distribution system whatsoever and, of course, also
> that it's covered by the fair use law.
>
> Bert
>
>
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