It’s been about a month since Cablevision announced that it will test a networked DVR service (see here), but USA Today has this item about the Long Island-based cable operator’s actual launch of the test, which kicks off today.
Multichannel News’s Matt Stump covers the controversial networked DVR experiment, called remote storage DVR (RS-DVR), which involves 1,000 customer homes that are able to store about 25 hours of programming on centralized servers. The RS-DVR obivates the need for an actual PVR-enabled set-top — in essence it turns every digital box into a PVR.
As all the articles on the RS-DVR today note, the move by Cablevision follows Time Warner’s long effort to develop a similar service called Mystro, which the company abandoned mostly because it could not figure out the copyright aspects of the arrangement. Cablevision believes that the law allows it to copy and store programming on behalf of consumers, who have well-established rights to “time-shift” programming.
Cynthia Brumfield at 7:19 AM|Comments(0)
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