Comments on: Will the Hard Drive be a Thing of the Past for the DVR of the Future?

By: Alexandria Hamad

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By: Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:11:00 +0000

Sounds wonderful, no need for a special box, just let your cable/satellite provider manage things for you, but like the others here I fear giving the providers control over the recording mechanism and media, for all the same reasons.

And maybe I can come up with another: with current TiVOs and PVRs it is fairly easy to move content from the PVR to a computer or DVD-R. With this proposed system will this be possible, or will that ability go the way of the dodo?

It's irrelevant to me because I a) don't have a PVR and b) don't have cable or satellite with which to use a PVR, but it's definitely a big question for those of you who DO.

By: Dan Vogel

Dan Vogel — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:16:00 +0000

Will there be a day when you truly can have 5 terabytes of TV stored without having to buy 10 external hard drives?

Kryder's Law suggests that day will be within the next decade.

By: Shawn Oster

Shawn Oster — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:30:00 +0000

This would make watching DVR’d content a bit hard when the construction crew cuts your cable or the wind storm knocks out your dish. Wouldn’t it be fun to be watching TV and suddenly it goes choppy with a message, “We Are Experiencing Network Congestion, Please Wait”.

Aside from worries about spotty connections (comes from living in a new build area) I fear when they start putting time-limits on content. I know a *lot* of people that wait until a show is half-way through a season before they start watching what they’ve recorded. Hell, I’m just finishing watching the end of season 1 of Grey’s Anatomy.

By: Christopher Bermingham

Christopher Bermingham — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:03:00 +0000

How would you like your provider to decide when you have had the show long enough and to go ahead and delete it? Or that you can only watch a recorded television show once? Remote storage would provide a provider with a lot more options…

By: Will

Will — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:31:00 +0000

I am afraid if we cede control of shows on our DVR’s to the cable company, it’s just a matter of time before the MPAA/Gestapo convinces them that some aspect of a DVR is “illegal” and the commercial skip/fast-forwarding functionality disappears. I hope I am wrong, because TiVo would not be able to compete with such a juggernaut, and the consumer would be left with one choice that the MPAA could easily manipulate.

By: Dan Covey

Dan Covey — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:13:00 +0000

It is actually way more cost effective to do nPVR rather than cPVR, even today’s low end VoD servers can stream hundreds of sessions of a nPVR asset from RAM or a hard drive allowing each viewer to pause, rewind and watch he same copy of an asset time shifted from every other viewer. when you consider the cost of putting a PVR capable STB in every home compared with the cost of a digital STB, the nPVR option is very attractive.