Time Warner Cable to Deploy Network DVR, if Courts Approve

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 7, 2008 - 7:51am.

New York - The chief executive of Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has said that his company will deploy a network-based digital video recorder, should rival Cablevision fare successfully against the studios and networks challenging the technology in court, Multichannel News reported.

"We've said for a long time that a centralized network DVR is a better engineering solution than having hard drives all over everybody's home," Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said on a conference call with analysts, Multichannel News reported.

"If this particular court case is upheld, we will deploy that."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit this week overturned a lower court's ruling that sided with the studios and networks, who argued that sending the programs recorded by consumers from Cablevision servers to home set-tops should require additional licensing payments.

The Cablevision case has been sent back to a lower court for further proceedings; the studios and networks also may appeal the 2nd Circuit ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

Related Links:
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6585192.html?desc=topstory

http://snipurl.com/3cgox (DMW previous coverage)



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