PurePVR

Cablevision has been making a lot of news lately in the PVR / DVR community, mainly because of its new DVR / Video on Demand (VOD) service that it is trying to release. In a nutshell, Cablevision wants to allow users to choose what programs to record and then it stores that program on remote servers. Of course some of the major networks don’t like this because of copyright issues, but that’s a whole other story.

Andrew Wallenstein (from The Hollywood Reporter) offers his opinion on the matter. After having his TiVo die on him and going through the replacement process, he openly welcomes a solution which does not involve new boxes or more cables.

If a service like this were offered to me (I’m in Canada, and it would probably have to be Rogers cable) I think I would look long and hard at it. Yes, I do have my own PVR, but if it were cheap enough I like the idea of my shows being stored remotely so I don’t need to worry about hard disk troubles. That and it would probably be more girlfriend friendly than my current setup.

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