Cablevision Ruling Revives Cautious Interest In the Network-Based Service
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 8/8/2008 12:07:00 PM

After a federal appeals court this week ruled that Cablevision Systems’ network-based digital video recorder does not violate copyright laws, cable-technology vendors are taking their network DVR blueprints out of mothballs—albeit cautiously.

Even if the ruling holds up on the expected appeal by programmers, putting such systems into service would present significant technical challenges.

For one thing, cable operators would be likely to initially deploy a network DVR service that closely hews to the way Cablevision described its Remote Storage DVR in court documents, to be on the safe side of the law.


Network DVR Plans Come Out of Cold Storage - 8/8/2008 12:07:00 PM - Multichannel News