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The new recorder will also download movies from the DirecTV satellite and store them on its hard drive, thereby making them available to subscribers on demand. Customers will pay for them only if they watch them.
So, in other words, we're gonna suck up your storage and bandwidth on the outside chance that you're gonna need to watch Horny Cheerleaders from Kuzbain II - The Curse of the Pesky Penis at 3:57 a.m. some lonely Saturday night.
I wonder how big the hard drives will be in those installs. I still have Wonderfalls on my TiVo, and it'll stay there until the DVDs come out, dammit.
Ya know, I wonder what the legal ramifications would be for someone if they downloaded a movie to the box that didn't quite meet local community standards. They're storing the movie on a harddrive in your home, and by signing the terms of service, you're allowing them to do it.
Maybe you can V-chip the DVR?
If a movie is downloaded to a harddrive, and no one is there to watch it, does it still make a noise?
Maybe, but the chip would have to prevent it from downloading to the harddrive.
If a movie is downloaded to a harddrive, and no one is there to watch it, does it still make a noise?
Depends on the jurisdiction.
the chip would have to prevent it from downloading to the harddrive
That's what I was thinking.
If those are pictures, than the "Media Centre" gives me huge wonderings about things like built-in TV out and possibly Media software...
Doesn't look like there's a TV tuner on there, unfortunately.
I could tell that those pictures were fake, even before this site confirmed it.