TiVo and ReplayTV cave to Hollywood on recording pay-per-view

Speaking of TiVo and their future plans, we might be all jazzed up by the prospect of their teaming up with Netflix to deliver movies on demand over the Internet, but they're up to something else that we're farily certain you all won't dig quite so much. Along with ReplayTV they're planning to kowtow to the movie studios and television networks and start placing some restrictions on what you can do with programming and pay-per-view movies that have been recorded to your TiVo or ReplayTV digital video recorder. And not just the expected stuff like restrictions on copying, they're also going to be regulating how many times you can watch pay-per-view movies, and doing stuff like automatically deleting films after seven days whether you've had a chance to watch them or not. We're not even gonna get into the whole thing about how we're tired of TiVo constantly caving in to the entertainment industry rather than focusing on making their customers (the people who are paying them) happy, but even
outgoing MPAA prez Jack Valenti cops to using his TiVo to record pay-per-view movies to watch later on.

[Via TechDirt]