Comment Removable Media/Consumer Resistance? (Score 2) 165
Digital VCR sounds interesting, but people do collect episodes of their favourite programmes on large numbers of Video Cassettes. There might be some consumer resistance if they realise they're limited to a cache of 24/48 hours worth of recorded programmes.
Some form of removable "backup" media would be interesting to allow folks to build up their own digital video collections. Tivo + dvdram backup unit?
If you follow negroponte's ideas of the digital future, backups probably wouldn't need to be done on site and we'd have full media on demand. But hey, we're a long way off from having a T1 in everyones house so, for the short term at least, home backup of favourite programs would be useful.
Of course, there are copyright issues involved in keeping collections of recorded TV shows. Perhaps the unit's modem could be used to implement some kind of fair priced pay per re-view instead of counting the average amount of time people stay tuned to the playboy/girl channel... Oops ;)
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Some form of removable "backup" media would be interesting to allow folks to build up their own digital video collections. Tivo + dvdram backup unit?
If you follow negroponte's ideas of the digital future, backups probably wouldn't need to be done on site and we'd have full media on demand. But hey, we're a long way off from having a T1 in everyones house so, for the short term at least, home backup of favourite programs would be useful.
Of course, there are copyright issues involved in keeping collections of recorded TV shows. Perhaps the unit's modem could be used to implement some kind of fair priced pay per re-view instead of counting the average amount of time people stay tuned to the playboy/girl channel... Oops
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