Court rules in favor of Cablevision
FROM VARIETY: Studios lose appeal in DVR consumer case
By John Dempsey and Ben Fritz of Variety -- Video Business, 8/5/2008
AUG. 5 | FROM VARIETY: Hollywood’s DVR problem has gone into fast forward.
A federal appeals court on Monday struck down a 2007 district court injunction that prevented Cablevision from offering its “remote storage” DVR, which lets users record programs on distant servers rather than on a set-top box in their own homes.
The decision opens the way for cable operators to sell DVRs at a significantly lower cost. That should increase their deployment and thus the number of consumers who skip ads while watching TV.
That’s bad news for networks, particularly advertiser-supported broadcast nets, as well as their content providers.
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