Cablevision starts "limited deployment" of network DVR
By Richard Lawler 
posted May 4th 2010 2:47PM
posted May 4th 2010 2:47PM
The future has finally arrived, as New York-area Cablevision subscribers are getting their first taste of cloud based DVRs. Light Reading reports an email from spokesman Jim Maiella confirmed limited deployments which may be too late to securely record Lou Diamond Philips for our later viewing pleasure, but should quickly become more common as the cable company has already expressed plans to stop buying physical DVRs later this year. Even after legal entanglements have held things up for years we're not quite ready to switch away from local storage options yet, but any of you guinea pigs out there are more than welcome to share your opinions of it.
How about adding FoxSoccerChannel in HD and GolTV HD in the summer?!
This sounds pretty cool. I wonder if they'll have different plans that allow for more storage, and if this will come to existing dvr owners in lieu or combination of local storage. I don't even get cablevision, and I have a tivo anyways, but this does sound compelling if you could get 1tb of storage for a few extra bucks a month.
It's a really cool idea, since you would cut the amount of total storage required down by several orders of magnitude, but they're going to have to have some small nodes and use SDV a LOT in order to have enough bandwidth to be able to pull this off.