Comments on: Cablevision wins DVR appeal

Cablevision win an appeal that will let it deliver a new DVR service that allows people to remotely store movies and TV shows in the Cablevision network.

[califomia]

uh hello cable companies. obviously ppl are not satisfied with your commercials. i have honestly been boycotting TV altogether for 7 years because the commercial breaks are too long and boring. i'll steal from the bastards as long as it takes until they get it. apparently 1 in 4 american homes are doing the same thing and they're suing rather than reducing commercial length. just make commercials more expensive to advertisers and repeat them less often so we'll see fewer, higher quality commercials and i and **** tons of other ppl will start watching them again. more superbowl quality, less john bastow.

[sanenazok]

The commercials are not a good reason to avoid TV, the content is a problem!

[califomia]

uh hello cable companies. obviously ppl are not satisfied with your commercials. i have honestly been boycotting TV altogether for 7 years because the commercial breaks are too long and boring. i'll steal from the [edit] as long as it takes until they get it. apparently 1 in 4 american homes are doing the same thing and cable co's are suing rather than reducing commercial length. just make commercials more expensive to advertisers and repeat them less often so we'll see fewer, higher quality commercials and i and countless other ppl will start watching them again. more superbowl quality, less john bastow.

[say_what995]

If CableVision wins at the Supreme court, Their services will become more desirable and reach more customers. Then, advertisers will stop paying the tv networks and they will start to drasticly loose money. This is unfair to the tv networks and could potentially cause them to go out of business, depriving everyone of the tv we now enjoy.

However, this new DVR service could still be a good idea for the consumer (no ads).

I propose that this DVR service should be allowed, but should have to pay royalties to the tv networks to offset the loss from advertising.

Also, I dont know what lisencing is ascociated with content from all tv networks, but it is highly unlikely that they allow changing AND redistributing (taking out ads counts as changing).

So, I aggree with the tv network side, in that CableVision should have to pay royalties not them to offset the loss from ads and because it should count as copyright infringement.

[Herbal Ed]

I'm ever amazed that these network and movie exec's still don't get it, and that they have to be dragged, kicking & screaming, into the 21st Century.

First it was radio that was going to destroy the movie industry ... then it was TV ... and then the VCR. Now both the movie and TV companies are screaming that the DVR is going to take all their profits away. What they fail to learn from history is that radio, TV & VCR actually made them more money ... a lot more!! And so will DVR if they'll just wake up and embrace the future.

Yes, the old paradigm of TV commercials is quickly dying, so they'll just have to figure out a new one. There's no way they're going to stop this, so instead they should hop on board and help create the new paradigm instead of trying to hold back a tsunami.

How is it that these guys get paid such big bucks and yet are so blind to the future?

[benjaminstraight]

Surely more lawsuits will follow and this is not done. Hollywood ain't happy when it's profits are affected.

[Get aLife]

There is plenty of free content on YouTube. If you do not like the network/movie business model, enjoy the wonderful UGC that is available on the net. No one is forcing you to watch TV. The reason folks are complaining is that want something for nothing. Unfortunately life does not work that way.

[mailinglist11]

I?m surprised no one has commented on the potential wider ramifications and that this opens the way to the ?Cloud?ification of your entertainment content.
http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/cloudification-of-your-content.html


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Dean Collins
http://www.Cognation.net