Think about it... (Score 1)

They don't really want to prevent you from timeshifting, they just would like better control of it. Right now, if record a show on TV, and then watch it later, you can choose to skip/ignore commericials by using the fast forward. With the digital video recorders, such as Tivo and Replay, you can still do this. However, if you follow some of PR and things going on around Tivo and Replay, you'll find out that the broadcasters would like to have more control of advertising when you are time-shifting. So how does all of this apply, well if the above article is true, then only certain digital video recorders which give broadcasters control over advertising (or additional advertising revenues) will be allowed to record said DTV content. Just my two cents