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Appeals Court: Cablevision Can Offer Network DVR; Big Win for Cable; Bad News for Content, Satellite Cos

in News on August 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm PT

In a stunning ruling that has huge implications for the cable industry, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York has cleared the way for Cablevision (CVC) to offer so-called “network DVRs,” in which consumers would be able to record video programming for future viewing “in the cloud,” rather than relying on the hard-drives in their set-top boxes.