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[AdJab] The DVR would be centrally located, meaning instead of each house having one the subscriber's TV would be connected to a DVR at a Cablevision facility. Hollywood studios think this crosses the line into being a video-on-demand service and therefore they want VOD-style royalties.

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http://www.alldvrnews.com [Comcast HD DVR with TiVo] TiVO MAC Universal Binary Desktop Software: A universal binary version of the TiVo desktop DVR software will allow the program to run on old Power PC processors or the new Intel processors that are currently built into the new MacBook Pro and iMac. Without the Universal binary feature the software would not run efficiently with these processors.

http://blog.itvt.com [Blog.itvt.com] [itvt] Bloggit: Studios and Broadcasters Sue Cablevision over ...: "Cablevision's proposed service is an unauthorized video-on-demand service that would undermine the video-on-demand, download, mobile device and other novel and traditional services that plaintiffs and other copyright owners have developed and are actively licensing into the marketplace." Cablevision, in a statement released Wednesday, countered that the lawsuit "is without merit, reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of Cablevision's remote-storage DVR, and ignores the enormous benefit and well-established right of viewers to time-shift television programming."

Jerrybrito.comhttp://jerrybrito.com [Jerrybrito.com] jerry brito (dot com): The studios and networks claim that this is not like TiVo but instead like video-on-demand, which would require Cablevision to license the shows it broadcasts to its customers. Cablevision counters that time-shifting is a well-established consumer fair use right.

Lostremote.comhttp://www.lostremote.com [Lostremote.com] Lost Remote: Cable TV: Cablevision's plan to offer its subscribers a DVR service that's centrally located -- so shows are recorded at the cable head-end, not the customer's home -- is being met with a lawsuit from a group of movie and TV studios. The studios say it's a video-on-demand service, and as such, must pay licensing fees.

http://community.livejournal.com [Community.livejournal.com] TiVo Lovers - Cablevision sued over on-demand plans: What they're offering is functionally no different than TiVo or any other DVR. The differences is simply that the encoders and drives are in a central location - kind of like having half the DVR (recording & storage) in their server room and the other half (playback & UI) in the home.

[Atmasphere.net] atmaspheric | endeavors » movies: I’m hopeful that when the day comes, we’ll see something similar to how HBO on-demand works which is that if you choose to watch on the day, you can, but if you want the on-demand option (not recorded from DVR) you have to wait 24 hours. This is quite reasonable to me and matches how ABC is offering their shows to Apple now.

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