Thank you for your explanation. There's an option to save content to VCR. Why is this OK with CL.. is it because the content's quality is subpar?
Also there should be some separation between content created by the user and content delivered by the cable company. It's simple for an operating system to differentiate between these types of files. They can lock the cable's content and let me do whatever I want with my own content. Last.. it seems illogical that CL wants to control the whole device when they didn't create it and when I don't have a CableCard installed. A. MegaZone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once upon a time Abdelhadi Bukres shaped the electrons to say... > I just want to copy personal videos from my computer to the Tivo > box. Why should Cablecard or Cable Labs prevent me from doing so. I > visited the forum and I still do not know what is Cable Labs and > what's their business with Tivo. The Series3 and TiVo HD support CableCARD. Cable Labs controls the specifications, regulations, and approvals surrounding CableCARD. In order to be allowed to support CableCARD TiVo has to meet their requirements, which cover *all* areas of the device, even those not directly related to the cards. One of those areas is the movement of content over network interfaces. And this applies to the device as a whole, even if the cards are not installed - approval is for the *ability* to use the cards at all. Technically TiVo probably could've enabled only uploading content to the TiVo since CL is mainly concerned with moving cable content *from* the receiving device. But they were working with CableLabs on approval for the whole system and did not want to confuse matters by enabling half the feature, etc. So they decided to wait and work with CL to be able to fully enable all the network-related content movement - TiVoToGo, TiVoToComeBack, and Multi-Room Viewing. Cable Labs has approved standards for such things now, and TiVo has said they they will have them enabled later this year. It is just part of playing in the market and needing to not only meet the specific licensing requirements, etc, but also being political and not antagonizing a party you need to work with in order to fully enable things. It happens all the time in all industries, you just have to walk the line. Now TiVo is poised to bring the full feature set to the S3 and HD. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.TiVoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171 Yahoo! Groups Links --------------------------------- Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
