VOD vendors fast forward network DVR plans

FROM MCN: Companies ready systems for high-capacity time-shifted TV services

By Todd Spangler of Multichannel News -- Video Business, 7/2/2009

JULY 2 | FROM MCN: Companies that sell video-on-demand systems and software have cranked up efforts to deliver products for high-capacity "RS-DVR" services, after the Supreme Court this week declined to review a ruling that Cablevision Systems' network-based digital video recorder complies with copyright laws.

Most current VOD systems may not be suited to cost-effectively build a remote storage DVR service, as it has been deemed legal, according to industry executives. But vendors including SeaChange International, Cisco Systems, Arris and Concurrent are gearing up to deliver VOD systems with much higher ingest and storage capacity to meet those higher performance requirements.

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