Comments on: Remote Storage DVRs Will Ultimately Be A Big Deal http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:34:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/comment-page-1/#comment-101114 Bill Gorman Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:57:09 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=21601#comment-101114 Fanfoot, I am far from an expert on how the systems work, but I believe that the satellite companies provide video on demand service over a broadband internet connection to their set top boxes, so presumably that's how they'd do the remote DVR service. But without a broadband connection, that wouldn't be possible. Fanfoot, I am far from an expert on how the systems work, but I believe that the satellite companies provide video on demand service over a broadband internet connection to their set top boxes, so presumably that’s how they’d do the remote DVR service. But without a broadband connection, that wouldn’t be possible.

]]> By: Fanfoot http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/comment-page-1/#comment-101113 Fanfoot Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:53:24 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=21601#comment-101113 Not sure how a satellite-based RS-DVR would work... so it has no disk drive, and streams the content you recorded... how exactly? There isn't enough channel bandwidth for everybody on a satellite to have their own stream. Not sure how a satellite-based RS-DVR would work… so it has no disk drive, and streams the content you recorded… how exactly? There isn’t enough channel bandwidth for everybody on a satellite to have their own stream.

]]> By: grapeshot http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/comment-page-1/#comment-101079 grapeshot Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:48:36 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=21601#comment-101079 I agree that this would probably do real well with consumers and for the reasons you describe. It would also, presumably, prevent people from zapping past the commercials, so I think it's a win-win all around, despite what the studios and the networks think today. I agree that this would probably do real well with consumers and for the reasons you describe. It would also, presumably, prevent people from zapping past the commercials, so I think it’s a win-win all around, despite what the studios and the networks think today.

]]> By: Bill Gorman http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/comment-page-1/#comment-100996 Bill Gorman Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:40:02 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=21601#comment-100996 Scott, maybe, maybe not. TiVo effectively stopped selling DVRs a while ago, they sell so few today as to be meaningless in the grand scheme of things, so missing out on putting new boxes in people's homes doesn't really hurt them. However, their patent portfolio has proved valuable, and may be even more valuable in the future (I cannot possibly evaluate it). Do their patents apply somehow to these remote storage DVRs? I'm sure lawyers are beavering away on that question right now (if not for quite some time already). And yes, I would agree that the companies [like Motorola and Scientific Atlanta] who currently supply DVR boxes to the cable and satco's will certainly lose out on the incremental revenue they'd get from folks upgrading to DVR boxes containing hard drives. Scott, maybe, maybe not. TiVo effectively stopped selling DVRs a while ago, they sell so few today as to be meaningless in the grand scheme of things, so missing out on putting new boxes in people’s homes doesn’t really hurt them. However, their patent portfolio has proved valuable, and may be even more valuable in the future (I cannot possibly evaluate it). Do their patents apply somehow to these remote storage DVRs? I’m sure lawyers are beavering away on that question right now (if not for quite some time already).

And yes, I would agree that the companies [like Motorola and Scientific Atlanta] who currently supply DVR boxes to the cable and satco’s will certainly lose out on the incremental revenue they’d get from folks upgrading to DVR boxes containing hard drives.

]]> By: Scott Jensen http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2009/06/29/remote-storage-dvrs-will-ultimately-be-a-big-deal/21601/comment-page-1/#comment-100992 Scott Jensen Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:28:50 +0000 http://tvbythenumbers.com/?p=21601#comment-100992 I think TiVo and the like should be even more worried. This could spell their doom. I think TiVo and the like should be even more worried. This could spell their doom.

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