[opendtv] Re: News: BSkyB advances HDTV launch
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:38:14 -0500
I have been saying this for awhile, that Hollywood could do far worse
than pushing everyone to use a PVR. It makes an end run around the
missing HDTV VCR's and would be enough for most of the people most of
the time, yet with limited sharing.
Of course that puts them in conflict with the ad people who would prefer
advertisements not be skipped so easily.
- Tom
jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>>Richard Freudenstein, revealed that Sky's
>>HDTV box would feature a similar Personal Video Recorder capability
>>to the existing Sky+ box.
>>Freudenstein said that offering PVR capability as a standard in the
>>HDTV arena will ensure that Sky+'s 6000,000 subscribers would
>>continue to enjoy control and flexibility in association with the
>>highest-quality programming.
>
>
> This is kinda smart... by including a hard disk, you give the
> customer the ability to time-shift and to repeat a transmission.
> But you don't give him the capability to record an infinite
> amount of programming, or to take it out of the settop box.
>
> By giving the customer 80% of what he needs, you don't need to
> bother with making an output for an external recording device,
> and thus you don't have to worry about content protection !
> The file format on the hard disk is typically non-standard, and
> (supposedly) incomprehensible for PCs (that have DVD recorders).
>
> So this generous offer is in fact a smart method of copy protection.
> The DTV receiver with the built-in PVR is a natural combination...
>
> Regards,
> -- Jeroen
>
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