PVRs Under Attack Again: Nothing New- December 10, 2002 PVRs are the topic of the day, with a posting at Slashdot and an article at Salon. Cable Companies Despise PVRs covers the Broadband Plus show put on by the cable industry. While the various write-ups and links are interesting, what I find most fascinating is that the original post quotes Gary Lauder, "a venture capitalist who has funded many cable related companies" on his views on PVRs. He then wrote in to Slashdot to correct what he viewed as inaccuracies...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalVideo/2002/12/09.html#a3161 Is Fair Use Fair- December 4, 2002 New Tool Makes DVD Copying Easy "Hollywood says that it's illegal to burn a backup copy of your Austin Powers Goldmember DVD, and it builds in copy protection to stop you. But a small firm denies any kinship to Dr. Evil just because it markets software that lets anyone with a burnable DVD drive make an exact copy of a commercial DVD. Missouri-based 321 Studios has released DVD X Copy, a $99 program that is the first to let users create a mirror image of an entire DVD on a second blank DVD. The.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalVideo/2002/12/03.html#a3119 Nielsen Takes on PVRs- December 2, 2002 Nielsen and Ucentric to Track PVR Usage "Nielsen Media Research and Ucentric Systems today announced they have agreed to create television audience measurement software that will track usage of personal video recorders on multiple television sets. Under the agreement, Nielsen software will be integrated into the Ucentric Multi-TV PVR applications that power many digital set-top boxes, enabling Nielsen to collect tuning, recording and playback information from every TV connected to the Ucentric.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/digitalVideo/2002/12/02.html#a3106 |