New York Times – Television recording — and the ad skipping that comes along with it — may have just become a whole lot easier to do.
In a ruling on Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York approved a plan by Cablevision to introduce “remote storage DVR” for its customers. Most digital video recorders rely on an internal hard drive to record and preserve television episodes. But the ones in Cablevision’s system — also referred to as network DVRs — record programs on the company’s centralized servers. The consumer still decides what to record, when to watch it and whether to skip the ads.
The court essentially ruled that network DVRs are no different from the standalone DVRs that exist in the living rooms and bedrooms of nearly 25 percent of American households. Craig Moffett, an analyst for Bernstein, called the ruling a “huge win for cable operators” and said it could have “seismic implications across the media landscape.http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/court-ruling-could-make-dvrs-more-pervasive/
