bbenso1
join:2004-11-28
Baltimore, MD
| reply to phattieg
Re: don't stifle it...
said by phattieg  :Try having your hard drive fry in your REAL DVR, and then swapping it only to find all your content gone. This sucks, especially considering you paid additional to be able to have DVR. Maybe you should have backed up some of that content if you didn't want a hardware failure to wipe it out.
said by phattieg :I think you guys fighting this are all just mad because you had suck experiences with Video on Demand type services I haven't had any problems with VOD type services. But I have had problems where the cable is out so I'd like to watch something previously recorded only to find out that I can't watch it because the DVR can't sync with the headend so it won't let me do ANYTHING. This is the same problem you'll have when they move all the recordings to the headend instead of local to your system. Of course, after I had this problem I built a MythTV box so now I don't have to rely on the crappy cable system to watch my recordings.
said by phattieg :and think they are taking control away from you. The control is still in your hands, you can still record whatever you want. Geez. Umm, they ARE taking control away from us. The difference is that you don't see that because when you click the 'Record This' button THEIR server happily says 'OK, that's fine, I'll record this for you'. But don't think for a second that that won't change sometime in the future. It's only a matter of time until they decide that you shouldn't be able to record the final episode of Lost or American Idol or whatever. And since the recording is taking place on THEIR system at the headend it's nearly trivial for them to change the system so when you click the 'Record This' button you get a message that says "We're sorry, but the creator of this program has decided that we cannot allow you record this episode. It's too bad you let us take control away from you when we did. Now we've got it and you're screwed. Have a nice day." |
