Talk:Time shifting
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The information in this article is wrong. It describes time-shifting as something that would better be descibed by the word recording. In fact time-shift is an industry created marketing term promoting a digital vcr's ability to playback a show it is still recording the end of at the time, described in the article as an adititonal feature.
I removed the below sections. Firstly they have little to do with time shifting. Secondly they are deeply American centric, hypothetical, and POV. - SimonP 01:03, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
- ==Result==
- While Universal assumed that the VCR was a threat to its business, it has since made millions :(if not billions) of dollars from the rental and sale of its movies to play in such VCRs. Had :the courts prevented the fair use guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, it would likely :have crippled the industry, including current-day PVRs like TiVo and ReplayTV.
- ==Future==
- Currently, the rights of consumers to time-shift are threatened by technology being :pursued by trade organizations like the MPAA and others, and legislation such as :the DMCA. The broadcast flag approved by the FCC is one such limitation, :preventing users from recording a program if the program's owner wishes to do so. Other :digital restrictions management technologies will prevent recordings from being portable :from one unit to another; thus a person will not be able to send a friend or family member a :show which does not come on in their area, for example. There are also likely to be problems :even just watching a protected show in the same home, requiring each unit to be registered and :approved by a for-profit corporation representing content owners. The flag is :unlikely to be activated until customers are well into the new technology, giving them little :if any chance to refuse it. The latter is more likely to be activated from the start, as it :is part of the design, though it may also be combined with the flag.
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[edit] Timeshifting
hi, here is another article about the same topic. these two articles should be merged. greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 12:12, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] In European countries
In France there is this tv by satellite company called "Canalsatellite". They provide their users who wish it with a special satellite signal unscrambler called the PILOTIME, that also has a recording function (onto a hard drive). Maybe this could be threwn into the article, though I recommend someone who is actually renting one of these devices do it. http://www.canalsat.fr/pid326.htm --Beforedecay 20:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Complete Sentence
The last line in the History section is an incomplete sentence; I don't know the information to finish it. Go Beta.
[edit] Slashdot incoming
This article has just been linked to in a slashdot article.. Is it maybe a good idea to semi protect it before it picks up steam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.197.234.59 (talk) 11:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
