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Originally Posted by bicker
Electronics manufacturers clearly have anticipated the need, and the lack of willingness to pay a profitable price, and that's why choices are so limited.
TiVo has tried a dozen different pricing schemes and there simply is not enough money to be made to justify the research, development and high-tech components necessary.
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Another reason not mentioned here is the fact that most programmers feel that the content they provide is only "Rented", and they feel like you do not have a right to keep a copy.
HDMI and "Cable Cards" were supposed to address this, and keep control in the hands of the content providers. One cheap and easy way to do what you are trying to do if you only want to time shift and watch at your convenience is use a converter or set top box and feed the A/V outputs to your high tech (LOL) VCR. Cheap and easy way to time shift
DTV, and that way you can save enough money to have
and
while you watch !!
Less advertising throughout
