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Cable operators who deploy DVRs are earning a thumbs up from the financial community. Richard Greenfield, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners, recently trialed Time Warner Cable's DVR service in New York, and wrote in a report that DVRs "offers a strong consumer value proposition, enhancing the existing digital-video product." "
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One uncertainty is reaction to Cablevision's service by the TV networks, which have bristled at some of the cable industry's previous attempts to record shows on their systems before negotiating new broadcasting rights. Cablevision argues nothing will be recorded on its network unless the viewer orders it from the remote control — an important difference from other failed experiments.
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« BeyondTV 3.5 Released! | Main | Induce Act Shelved For the Moment » October 08, 2004 Time Warner Cable DVR Snafu According to WNBC, the 75,000 Time Warner cable customers in Manhattan with DVR service are not to happy at the moment.
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Time Warner Cable Launches Network DVR (Sort Of) Filed by Dave Zatz under DVR, Industry, Media Oct 23 2006 Folks in San Antonio are getting a free TWC upgrade today in the form of “ Start Over,” a service that lets you restart a show in progress using an existing digital cable box. It’s not exactly a full fledged DVR, but it’s an interesting spin on the “network DVR” concept for folks who don’t get (both figuratively and literally) DVRs.
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Time Warner Launching Free DVR Functionality 13 Aug, 2007 Time Warner will offer a free DVR ‘like’ service in select markets. The service is branded as Look Back, and allows subscribers to watch television shows that they have missed on any given day, as long as they watch them before midnight.
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Email Alerts Time Warner's Free DVR Service Won't Skip Ads Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:42AM EDT See Comments (19) There's always been much debate surrounding the ability to fast-forward through commercials on digital video recorders. So much that advertisers pressured the Nielsen Company into developing a system that would track how many people watched commercials.
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In July 2006, as part of Time Warner Cable’s strategy to expand its cable footprint and improve the clustering of its cable systems, a subsidiary of Time Warner Cable, and Comcast Corporation completed their respective acquisitions of substantially all the cable systems of Adelphia Communications Corporation. Immediately after these acquisitions, Time Warner Cable exchanged certain cable systems with Comcast.
Officials at Time Warner Cable and two technology suppliers had to scramble the past two weeks to fix a bug causing the picture on the TV screens of many digital-video-recorder users to freeze. The glitch - which Time Warner said affected subscribers with Scientific-Atlanta Inc. “8000-level” DVRs running the “Passport Echo” interactive program guide from Pioneer Digital Technologies - generated a backlash for the burgeoning DVR service in New York City, the MSO’s largest division. It afflicted an unknown number of customers in New York and some other undisclosed markets. Officials at Time Warner, S-A and Pioneer had not resolved the issue by Thursday, but Time Warner spokesman Keith Cocozza said in an e-mail Friday that the glitch had been repaired. After saying that it received dozens of complaints from viewers, major New York broadcaster WNBC-TV ran a segment Oct. 8 in which one anchor intoned, “Don’t give up your VCR just yet. ” The station quoted one subscriber in the report who said, “I call the company [Time Warner], they tell me to pull the plug and try again, and the same thing happens over and over again. So I get frustrated and just don’t use it. I have my old faithful VCR.
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Time Warner DVR Since I am not sure if Time Warner DVR is national I am asking you guys maybe you can assist me. I only have used the DVR feature very little so I am not the best in understanding the way it works.
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Time Warner launches S-A DVR on Motorola system Jeff Baumgartner CedMagazine.com - September 02, 2004 Following a successful trial, Time Warner Cable has deployed "overlay" technology from Scientific-Atlanta in Houston that will enable the MSO to offer S-A digital boxes with on-board DVR and high-definition television capabilities. The prime significance of the move is that Time Warner Cable is deploying the boxes in a system that was initially outfitted with Motorola Broadband 's MediaCipher conditional access (CA) technology.
The company rightly points out that the ability to fast-forward through ads is not the only feature that consumers love about DVRs. They also love the time-shifting: The ability to watch your shows when you want to watch them.
Monday July 26, 2004 10:03 am Time Warner Explorer 8000 DVR Review Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Home Entertainment, Product Reviews This machine will forever change how you watch TV. That's a pretty bold statement, I know.
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News Time Warner Expanding 'Start Over' DVR But the service prevents viewers from skipping ads. By Swanni Washington, D. C. (August 14, 2007) - Time Warner Cable is expanding a free service that permits viewers to watch High-Definition (and standard def) shows from the beginning if they tuned in late.
« || next » time-Shift this Time Warner Cable's Pseudo-DVR Won't Let You Skip Commercials In October, Time Warner is going to start rolling out a new DVR-like service called Look Back—emphasis on the "like," since it won't let you fast-forward through commercials and you have to watch a show before midnight on the day that it's shown. You don't get to keep them, either.
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Time Warner Cable then revamped (read: scaled down) the project, recently trial launching a new service dubbed " start-over " in portions of six markets. As the name indicates, the service only lets you start programs over - while content is still stored remotely.
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Monday July 26, 2004 10:03 am Time Warner Explorer 8000 DVR Review Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, Home Entertainment, Product Reviews This machine will forever change how you watch TV. That's a pretty bold statement, I know.
Time Warner Redefines the DVR For better or worse... ( old news - 01:31PM Tuesday Aug 14 2007 ) tags: Video · business · hardware · cable · RoadRunner Cable Time Warner Cable's original network DVR service "Mystro" received rave reviews from trial participants, but the company scratched the system because of legal threats from the broadcast industry.
Time Warner Cable is gradually rolling out a new feature called "Start Over. " Available to its digital cable customers in certain areas, it allows viewers to backtrack to the beginning of selected shows and provides limited DVR-like functionality.
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Welcome to the forum. Â I just went through this last month when i upgraded to an HD box.
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The company rightly points out that the ability to fast-forward through ads is not the only feature that consumers love about DVRs. They also love the time-shifting: The ability to watch your shows when you want to watch them.
More Time Warner DVR Fakery Filed by Dave Zatz under DVR, Industry, Media Aug 15 2007 Last year, Time Warner Cable brought us “ Start Over ” which allows one to start a television show from the beginning (while it’s still being broadcast) if, say, you’re running late. I guess Start Over is such a success (available in 23 states, 8 more by the end of the year) that TWC is expanding their fake DVR-OnDemand hybrid : The service, called Look Back, will let cable customers watch certain shows later on that they missed, just the way a digital video recorder does, but without an extra monthly fee.
"He came and he walked in, fiddled around with some wires and said that everything was OK - that there was no problem and we just needed to not record as much, which is ridiculous because that's why we have the DVR, to record as much as we want," said John Maybee, another Time Warner customer. There have been many complaints across the city about the freezing problem with Time Warner service.
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« || next » Home Entertainment Time Warner Tests DVR-Like "Start Over" Service in San Antonio Time Warner picked San Antonio as another test market for its "Start Over" service, a free upgrade to its network that lets viewers use an existing digital cable box to rewind and pause programs. It amounts to a crippled network DVR—not letting you fast-forward, which would let you skip commercials.
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