PurePVR

Time Warner has announced plans to roll out a new PVR / DVR service this summer dubbed “Start Over”. Best of all, it will apparently be free to all digital cable subscribers.

The service appears to be quite simple in nature. Time Warner will host digital copies of shows for a number of channels on their own servers. From there the end user can use time shifting techniques during the show. Right now the trial taking place in South Carolina has 62 stations that are through this new feature set.

This service is not designed to replace full PVR / DVR functionality – that will apparently cost an extra $5 a month according to this article. $5 a month for a DVR seems pretty cheap and since I am not in the U.S. I cannot confirm that this price is accurate. It would be nice if this started giving TiVo a run for the money - competition is always great for consumers.

Technorati Tags: PVR, DVR, Time+Warner, TiVo