PPV bomb drops on Feb 1st

[chiente]

Not widely known yet, but the satellite industry is required under contract with movie studios to ERASE all the recorded PPVs on your DVR as of 2/1/08. That's correct - all saved shows on hard drives will be erased and any new PPV purchases will be viewable for only 24 hours and then erased. It affects Direct and Dish.. wait until customers get wind of this!!!

[MisterLas]

Do you have any reports supporting this? Links plz?

[peterson40]

Source?

[chiente]

Do you have any reports supporting this? Links plz?

There are no links yet, it was just announced in employee briefings yesterday and today.

[bkushner]

This is how apple, Xbox etc handle their DRM.

You can have movie on your box for 30 days but once you hit play you have 24 hours to watch.

Problem with this for me is let's say at 8pm I sit down to watch a movie. I get tired at 8:45 and go to bed. The next night I sit down at 8:30, too late, movie gone at 8PM.

They should allow 48 hours at least.

Brian

[Tyralak]

Not widely known yet, but the satellite industry is required under contract with movie studios to ERASE all the recorded PPVs on your DVR as of 2/1/08. That's correct - all saved shows on hard drives will be erased and any new PPV purchases will be viewable for only 24 hours and then erased. It affects Direct and Dish.. wait until customers get wind of this!!!

Then I will never order another PPV, if this is actually true. If it does happen, I can only imagine the lawsuits by advocacy groups.

[Tyralak]

There are no links yet, it was just announced in employee briefings yesterday and today.

I haven't heard anything, and we just had our briefings yesterday and today as well.

[kstuart]

This was reported by people against the Internet Tax who had also had both their kidneys removed.

Also, all PPV movies go to fund Reptilian Aliens who masquerade as the Great Banking Families and who oppose the Grey Aliens.

The PPV change was reported two centuries ago in microscopic print on the back of Dollar Bills.

Oh, and everything crucial to your life is reported by people with 2 prior posts on the site.

[Sileny Jizda]

We don't buy ppv, we check them out from the local library. Takes a bit longer than renting or getting a ppv but it's cheaper.

[espaeth]

If we forward this to 10 people will Bill Gates buy everybody a HD-DVD player?