TiVo Plans RFID-Aware PVR · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday November 22, 2005 @05:00AM from the different-rooms-need-different-tv dept.

Dotnaught writes "New Scientist has spotted a patent application from TiVo that suggests the company is "working on a PVR that will recognise one of several individual users, and respond to their personal preferences." The patent application describes the invention as "a multimedia mobile personalization system provides a remote control that detects a user's electronic tag, e.g. an RFID tag." It also promises personalized viewing at a variety of locations, detailing how TiVo might forward stored shows from home to a TV in a hotel room, for example. It remains to be seen whether hotels will be eager to help TiVo undermine their pay-per-view video revenue."

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This is terrible!! by dschuetz · 2005-11-22 05:12 · Score: 3, Interesting

This use of RFID tags will destroy my privacy! You just watch...overnight, we'll have a terrible Orwellian police state where we're all branded with the RFID tag of the beast on our foreheads!