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Replacing Your Tired Old DVR

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-like-my-tivo dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to mention a C|Net article about a possible replacement for the DVR. Called RS-DVR, it allows customers to record shows on centrally located business-owned servers. From the article: "One uncertainty is reaction to Cablevision's service by programming networks, which have bristled at some of the cable industry's previous attempts to record shows on their systems before negotiating new broadcasting rights. Cablevision argues nothing will be recorded on its network unless the viewer orders it from the remote control--an important difference from other failed experiments. Earlier controversies had centered on Time Warner Cable's aborted Maestro service, which had proposed to automatically store programs on its network so viewers could order up just about any show that had been previously broadcasted." There are a number of possible media ownership issues here, I think. Personally, I'm happy having the shows right here on a hard drive in my home.

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  1. Very strange by endrue · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was looking for "Google" in that post and didn't see it anywhere!

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  2. No way by timeOday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I already pay a monthly fee to the cable company for the programming. No more monthly fees. I'm perfectly happy to record it myself and not get jerked around by another 'service provider.'

  3. My DVR is MythTV by drewzhrodague · · Score: 4, Informative

    My DVR is KnopMyth, a MythTV Knoppix distro. Why would I want to replace it? No DRM, works great, and I can burn shows I like onto DVD. I recommend this to everyone interested in a DVR.

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    1. Re:My DVR is MythTV by Quarters · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You do understand that the set of people containing the target audience for Cablevision's service and the set of people that know what KnopMyth is, let alone have the desire to build a box and set it up, have no union, right?

  4. On my own hard drive - exactly... by maillemaker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    >Personally, I'm happy having the shows right here on a hard drive in my home.

    Exactly. As I've said before, I've never cottoned to having my email stored on someone else's server, either.

    Just give me the PIPE, man! I don't need, want, or trust any of your "services" to manage the data for me. I can do that myself, thank you very much.

    Steve

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  5. Questions: by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    1. Can you skip ads?
    2. Will it still be there when the network loses the "right" to broadcast it?
    3. Will it still be there in case government (or someone else) doesn't like the idea of its existance?
    4. Will it be free of extra charge?
    5. Will it allow "unlimited" recordings?
    6. Will I be able to make local copies?

    If one of those queries return "no", my answer is "no" as well and I stay with my means of recording.

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  6. Re:Privacy by jratcliffe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Frankly, if you're storing 10 episodes of Ricki Lake, I think a trip to Gitmo is reasonable and appropriate. I'm all for free speech, but there's some conduct so reprehensible that we've just got to draw the line. :)

  7. Re:What about my Betamax? by mspohr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow... I used to actually have one of those colored plastic sheet things to put on our BW TV! My dad was always waiting for color TV to be "perfected" so we had BW for a long time. IIRC, it had a warm flesh tone area in the center (only white people were on TV in those days)... it worked amazingly well.

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  8. Re:'Tired Old DVR' by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm still using a "tired old VCR", you insensitive clod.