While the plan seems good, it relies on the support of Hollywood movie studios as they hold the key to the licenses for mass movie distribution. TiVo have been drawn into battle before with Hollywood over their recording hardware. TiVo however announced plans to use new content protection technology from Macrovision that would limit the recordings that could be made of pay-per-view movies and also would block recording to analog devices, which is a method known as the "analog hole".
TiVo has invented a security technology known as TiVoGuard which it will build into set top boxes and software in 2005. It would allow users to record movies and then send them to up to 9 other TiVo boxes that the user owns, which could be in remote locations. Hollywood challenged this upcoming security technology, claiming that it doesn't do enough to protect recorded content from piracy. However, the FCC approved the system and TiVo are to go ahead with it.
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Written by: James Delahunty @ 22 Sep 2004 19:40
