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Originally Posted by Jameseh
Its a pain, I'd like to watch on other devices but I tried once with a HD PVR and a SA V+ and I just got tired of having to do recordings manually or having to record recordings.
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That's exactly my gripe. I can fork out £380 and, I believe, legitimately move my HD content from my "state of the art" (sic.) Tivo to my NAS but am I going to spend ages playing it all in realtime, recording it on the laptop via the HD Fury, then move it to the NAS. No chance. They are making it as difficult as possible for us to perform legitimate activities purely on the basis of trying to maximise revenue from other sources (and I suspect future sources). New TVs are DLNA compliant and can stream recordings off WD (for example) NAS boxes from anywhere within your home without any additional hardware, this eliminates the need for any proprietary hardware from VM or anyone else, and I strongly suspect they are more aware of this than they let on.
Will it work? No chance. The popularity of torrents proves this more than my words can. When will the media industry realise that making things cheap, easy and DRM free will maximise revenue? How long did it take the music industry to get this and even now the prices are too high. Emusic, until it got taken over by corporate morons, was offering albums at under £2 DRM free while Sony was investing millions (billions?) in to DRMing music and even rootkitting CDs - remember that! Emusic did extremely well and now Sony and EMI have signed deals with them.
But I'm digressing here. I hope that this thread lays to rest once and for all that copying live broadcasts from a linear channel whether it be Freeview, VM cable or SKY is NOT illegal. There is NO legal time limit on how long you can keep these copies for and this INCLUDES HD broadcasts. And archiving it to another device is at worst a grey area.