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Hollywood and NFL Fight TiVo
An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC/Washington Post is reporting that the NFL and tinseltown have asked the FCC to stop TiVo from expanding its service to include the ability to transfer recordings to PC's and other remote devices. TiVo says the system is secure. I say its source code will end up on the box. You do the math."
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Let me guess - you own a Tivo? Current versions of Replay do not include "official" show sharing anymore. I know more people who own a Replay TV than I do Tivo. Not that one is necessarrily better than the other. I DO know that Tivo has had a very suspect privacy policy in the past and that they DO transfer personally idendifiable data back to their dbs. But who cares? As long as it improves the television experience, who cares if they know how many times you watched HBO's Real Sex?
Tivo is owned by Phillips and sold out to Hollywood, which is why they are still around in their current, Hollywood friendly incarnation. Of course, you can hack Tivo which really starts to bring out the cooler features that Replay came out with - like the 30 second skip forward button (to quickly get through commercials), networking your content and sharing it with an internet connection.