DBS PVR Moves Need Op Response.(Direct broadcast satellites' personal video recorders)(Statistical Data Included)
Multichannel News, May, 2001 by STUMP, MATT
The retail future of the personal video recorder is still to be determined. And PVR makers face a tough challenge: selling consumers on a costly VCR substitute that also commands a monthly subscription fee. But the retail efforts of TiVo Inc. and Replay TV Inc. have inspired cable operators and set-top vendors to prepare for something that many observers thought should have been done from the start: building video-recording capability directly into the set-top box.
"We believe the integration into the cable box was the ultimate answer," said Keen Personal Media CEO Russ Kraph. "There is not a top MSO that doesn't want integrated PVR." Cable-equipment titan Scientific-Atlanta Inc. reports heavy MSO interest in PVRs. "You look at the...
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