so, you're now asking someone hunting around (at least a bit) for solid conclusions based on his feeling about? Dan, you would need attorney help to answer your questions: universities have paid big bills going outside what fair use permits. I would be uncomfortable, personally, about using a camera, absent an opinion letter from an attorney. It could be a slam-dunk, or it could be murky, or untested. As for Bert, it's "comforting" to see that he still uses authoritative sources. I will note that he's asking questions when he doesn't know something, rather than making statements. John Willkie -----Original Message----- >From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Jun 30, 2008 6:26 PM >To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [opendtv] Re: MVPD and VOD; A Solution to Time-Shifting > >Dan Grimes wrote: > >> Here in Las Vegas, there is a group under Cox Communications, >> the Hospitality Group, that offers programming to hotels. >> The system is not the usuall cable system. They push digital >> content to servers in each of the hotels and offer the >> programming as VOD. As I understand it, a full week's >> schedule of every channel (I don't know how many) is stored >> on the server and it all is available VOD and complete with a >> full programming guide. > >Not including news and weather, I assume. > >So my question is, can these shows be viewed anytime? For example, are >you saying that you can watch shows schedules for Thursday night on >Monday night? That would seem unlikely. But you never know. > >Bert > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > >- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at >FreeLists.org > >- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word >unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.