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Copyright Concerns About DVR Recorders

DVR recorders are a feature to the common cable, satellite and now high speed data service that serves television programming to residences and commercial spaces throughout the world. DVR recorders are fast becoming a default feature technology about the cable set top box. The technology is basically a hard disk enabled video recording system, principally identical to the process of tape recording a show with a VHS tape, which was common in the 1980s and 1990s. But with a digital video recorder, the key difference is that most of these set top boxes don’t readily allow for the physical transport of the video from one location to another, as was the case with VHS tapes.

The digital video recorder is a common technology often offered by default with many digital set top boxes. The technology allows users to record shows available to them with their cable subscription, a principally identical process to VHS recording. Unlike VHS recording, however, with DVRs, you’re not readily available to transport these shows from one location to another like you can with a VHS tape~Not like VHS recording, however, with DVRs, you dont just transport these shows from one place to another like you can with a VHS tape}. Industry representatives argue that this is for the purpose of ensuring DVR security.

To combat the challenge of transporting the recordings of digital video recorders, several other technologies, hardware and software solutions, have been developed. In the past, its easy to take of the recordings from a VHS, just eject and put it in another place. With a DVR though, this isn’t a ready option. Many set top boxes will have to be rigged to a PC, in order to extract the soft file from the set top box’s hard drive. Another solution is to stream media off the DVR in real time.

A software-hardware combination solution will be needed to record stream media off of digital video recorders. One solution offered by a streaming company offers a small box that’s equipped with proprietary software for manipulating the set top box, and working with the set top box’s DVR security. This additional box is plugged to the home network, then is made accessible over the public internet, via log in credentials and a proprietary login channel.

Without the use of streaming software and hardware, extracting the media from a DVR is relatively involved, as content providers such as cable TV providers don’t have a vested interest in seeing this content being so freely distributable. The idea behind setting the content from set top boxes free in a regulated and industry officiated way came in the past decade in the way of the so called cable card. The cable card was essentially a PCMCIA card that would’ve allowed interoperability between the set top box and the PCs. Unfortunately, though, many providers were hesitant to adopt this method and technology, because the technology could conceivably undo the grip that the content providers in the industry had on its content. Many home brewed solutions are possible through a cable card enabled set top box, such as streaming the content that you’ve recorded from your home PC, in effect turning you into something of a non-profit content affiliate.