June 13, 2008

DVR’s may be able to record all programmes soon

The days of being able to record films on DVR’s, if The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gets their way and introduces some security measures. This can easily be done by remotely blocking the film so that it cannot be recorded at all by using Selectable Output Control (SOC).

This it not just the matter of recording, the industry is looking to rearrange the whole film distribution process, by allowing films to be shown by some TV channels before they are released on DVD.

Naturally by doing this it will open up the industry to these films being recorded and then copied before they reach the stores, meaning that they would lose a lot of revenue through this. But if they were able to block the films from being recorded this would stop that problem occurring.

Source [Ars Technica]