TiVoToGo is a Go
p2pnet.net News:- TiVoToGo is, well, a Go.
Hollywood’s attempt to sink plans to allow TiVo subscribers to share recorded shows online have been scuppered by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).
TiVo recently said it would offer a new service allowing subscribers to download movies and music but, complaining about possible ‘piracy,’ the entertainment industry and National Football League tried to persuade the FCC that such a move would lead to copyright violations.
The TiVo Technique involves sending shows from a TiVo to a PC via a small transmitter, in effect, fixed to the PC. Then, programs could be sent to other home systems.
"Such devices, including laptops or desktop computers, would be registered with the company and would share encoding and decoding technology that prevents viewing by nonregistered devices," says MSNBC here.
Hollywood and the NFL notwithstanding, the FCC decided unanimously allow the scheme to go ahead – without restrictions.
Or as Reuters puts it here, the FCC voted, "to certify digital protections on TiVoToGo, which is not yet available but would enable a user to record and send a digital broadcast television show to up to nine others who have been registered on that person’s service and has been given a key to see it."
This, says TiVo, means among other things, subscribers can access TiVo from any Net connection and "record a show in the living room and play it back in the bedroom – or vice versa," as well as organize and play digital music collections through home entertainment systems.
"In addition to approving TiVo’s application, the FCC certified 12 other technologies proposed, including ones by software giant Microsoft Corp., Sony Corp., and RealNetworks Inc. for protecting distribution of digital television broadcasts," says Reuters.
August 7th, 2004 at 3:57 pm
dont hack it guys or they will clamp down on cool technologies like this in the future. We can’t show them we will instantly exploit this stuff now, or they won’t give us an inch when it comes to the broadcast flag wars.