[mythtv] pcHDTV status

Jeffrey Brent McBeth mcbeth at broggs.org
Thu Nov 13 14:53:20 EST 2003


On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:17:16PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
> Usually time-shifting implies watching a program that is being
> broadcast _now_ but not watching it in real-time, so you've shifted
> the time that you start watching the program.  Hense, "time-shifting".

That may be what it has come to imply in the PVR world, but "time-shifting"
does have a real, legal meaning, and it does include both what you describe,
and recording a program for later viewing.  IIRC, the term was legally
established in the infamous VCR wars a couple decades back.

Jeff

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