"Made in the USA" to Air Tonight
Posted by Douglas Sorocco, September 14, 2005 at 3:47 am
Thanks to this post, I remembered that Made in the USA will air for the first time tonight at 10/9C. As you may recall, we mentioned the show in an earlier PHOSITA post. Be sure to watch, or to set your TiVo.
But, if you set your TiVo, be careful. Apparently TiVo won't save certain shows or allow moving them. It looks like your right to time-shift under the Betamax case is being limited by the networks and TiVo. It was a mistake this time, but TiVo has tipped its hand about some technological capabilities. I'm reminded of a great book, 1984.
Comments
PVRBlog is reporting that it was a mistake. (http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/09/tivo_72_os_adds.html)
However it does show you how easy it is for TiVo to do that now.
I don't think they tipped their hand to anything - for those who have followed TiVo, this is old news. We've known about the MacroVision issue for at least a year now. And this isn't even the first time a glitch like this has triggered the flag inappropriately - it is just the first time the blogosphere has bothered to take notice of it.
Of course, it has also caused erroneous conclusions - like this is new in 7.2. It isn't, it is just a coincidence that it happened to someone upgraded to 7.2. This has been in there since at least 5.x.
And TiVo isn't alone, it is part of the standard MacroVision license and ReplayTV, cable DVRs, etc, all honor the same license.