DirecTV DVR Will Delete Pay-Per-View Shows
from the record-at-your-own-risk dept
First we had ABC thinking that not allowing people to fast forward through commercials on a DVR-type product was a good idea, and now comes the news that DirecTV will automatically delete Pay-Per-View shows you record with your DVR after 24-hours. This is apparently at the request of the major Hollywood studios who have decided that the best way to build up an audience is to piss them off by not allowing them to record the movies that they legally paid for via PPV, and then chose to record and time shift. Time shifting is perfectly legal, so there's absolutely no legal reason for DirecTV to ban the practice. As for the Hollywood studios, this is more backwards thinking. One of these days, someone in Hollywood is going to realize that pissing off your loyal customers isn't a good idea.
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Well...
Back on the ABC deal, if I am unfortunate enough to miss my show or forgot to DVR the show I will pay the price by sitting through the commercials. They aren't asking to make it so the shows we DVR from "live' TV can't be commercial skipped, just the premium "I forgot to watch or record the show versions"
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Apparently you live in a world where nothing comes up interrupting your viewing experience. The rest of live in a different world where such interruptions are common. In fact, it's those interruptions that lead people to buy/rent DVRs in the first place.
In your world without interruptions, do they even sell/rent DVRs?!
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Let me tell you about the last movie I bought on xbox live. It was Braveheart HD. I began watching it when it said it had buffered enough. The buffer ran out fairly early on in the show. I wasnt too invested in the movie yet. So I said okay Ill just let it finish downloading and watch it again tomorrow.
Tomorrow comes. Around the same time as I started trying to watch it the first day. Movie is downloaded. I started watching the movie.
3/4 through the time is exactly 24 hours after I first started trying to watch the movie.
WHAM! Expired. Can't finish the movie.
Did I say that was the last movie I ever bought on xbox live?
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The announcement said this was going into effect in April.
So check back with us in May and let us know if you can still do that.
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You also said, "They aren't asking to make it so the shows we DVR from "live' TV can't be commercial skipped." In fact, that's exactly what they wanted to do -- their plan was that if you DVR'd a show, then you couldn't skip the commercials.
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I am a DirecTv customer, and I vote with my wallet. I never buy their PPV programs because there are too many legal and less-than-legal options that are more consumer-friendly.
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Bob's an idiot; he can't understand the difference.
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Highly doubtful.
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Wrong, Wrong, Wrong...
Do you have even a shred of evidence to back up that outrageous statement?
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Detroit & cars.
They did not get it either.
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Seriously though, whats the harm in letting someone store a pay-per-view movie on their DVR? Or at least let them store it for a week. Blockbuster at least gives you a week to return movies!
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Re: i disagree...limited intelligence was behind this thought!
I loved PPV because it gave us the flexibility to view at our time and our convience. If someone saw a movie that they thought we might like it got recorded and when we had time we would watch it. If we really liked it we would by the DVD so we could add it to our library.
Now we will watch fewer movies, and as you might imagine, we will not go out to the movies as a family because of the over all cost (who of you would spend $60 to $100 a movie?). The movie industry may never notice, but I have 10 kids in all. What happens if they grow up with the same ideas.....fewer viewers....If they each have 5 kids rather than 10 like me that is 60 people watching fewer movies if any, and 110 if they all have 10 kids and so on through the upcoming generations.
PPV was a way of keeping those people interested. They lost me after I recorded 5 movies yesterday and lost them all. I have limited time and I watch the cost so I doubt I will find an alternative unless someone points one out to me. I will not buy a movie without previewing, and if I cannot preview for a reasonable cost, I won't.
I know that DirecTV has lost us and no one else will get our business either if they have all done the samething.
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I don't mind due dates, but 24 hours is crap. 24 hours from the end time would be much better actually. Watch Once is worse though. At least it's not that.
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Direct TV is now $4.99 for 24 hours and Blockbuster 3.99 for a week. I don't rent from Direct Tv since they raised their price.
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Copy DVDs
Oh, and out of spite I make copies of all my movies for friends and family.
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More Restrictions = Increased Piracy
By restricting this capability, all it's doing is increasing my costs and reducing my benefits. As any business owner or savvy consumer will tell you, these two combined items are a sure way to get someone to look for another solution.
In this case, it makes DVD Rentals or bitTorrent sites look more attractive. With the usual Friday Night Rental Store Issues, bitTorrent or NetFlix VoD services start to become a better alternative if you have the setup for it.
Not sure if this is going to hurt the Movie Industry, but it will definitely reduce our spending on DirecTV PPV.
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24 hours is all you need
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Re: 24 hours is all you need...If you are a thief.
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Ah the wisdom....
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Movies vs. Events
Where this policy really matters is for pay-per-view EVENTS, such as a boxing match. It is not available on demand. Here you might want to purchase it at the time it is broadcast for future viewing.
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For example, I might record a movie tonight, knowing full well I won't get to watch it until three days from now. Why tape it now, and not then? Well, one example should suffice: How about a situation where I'll be out the next two nights, and three nights from now the movie won't be available any longer on DirecTV? So, I'd better record it tonight if I want to see it, and then I'll watch it three nights from now when I'm home again.
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I do think that expiration times are necessary for this type of content, but 24 hours is ridiculous. As I said, any self-respecting rental store lets you hang onto a movie for 3-4 days, so PVR recordings of PPV movies and VOD rentals should also have at least a 3-day time limit on them. That is not unreasonable by any stretch of the imagination. Also, it will make such services more valuable to people, so they will use them more, generating more profit for the providers. It's a win-win situation, and it's stupid to constantly try to crack down on supposed piracy. Whenever you start treating all your customers as potential criminals, it will never help your bottom line.
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Still have Return of the King in HD PPV
Also, when I rented Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer for my daughter's birthday party, they said it would expire in 1 month. That was November 29 and I checked it about a week ago and it still works. Shh.
I agree, though. There have been several times that we could not finish a movie in a single night and if it expires in 24 hours, we wouldn't rent it from DirecTV.
I guess they want us to use Netflix instead.
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Dish
That night I turned on the TV, checked the list of recorded shows and verified all were present and one was still taping. A check the next morning showed all episodes taped. A couple days later I came back to watch all the Saint episodes and they were all gone - but my other, prior and later, recordings were still there.
That's happened to me a few times in the past year but it was always one episode here or there and I always blamed the unit's sluggish response and my quick fingers for accidentally removing the shows. There was no way that was the case this last time - it was either a very bizarre bug that deleted half a dozen episodes or it was automatically deleted by the device. Personally I suspect the latter, that Dish Network snuck this "feature" in during a firmware update and that it's just not seeing widespread enough use that customers are noticing it.
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DTV sucks
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Hollywood execs = gun+foot+itchy trigger finger...
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And spread the word about it so other people will know to spend their money elsewhere too. That's what's going on here.
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Of all the things the entertainment idustry is pul
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And then you go on to state that you thought "anything PPV was live", thus proving that you didn't know what you were talking about. I guess anything might seem reasonable if you don't know what you're talking about.
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You get what you pay for
Try BitTorrent instead.
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possible workaround?
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One word: encryption.
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Pay-Per-View != On-Demand
Pay-Per-View is a lot older than On-Demand. I don't keep up with it these days, not worth my time, but I remember when big boxing or wrestling matches, or cetain sporting events, would be on Pay-Per-View. They tell you the time, you pay them the money, and then you sit and watch, captive-audience like. Now, If I pay for it why shouldn't I be allowed to record it and watch it at my leisure? I copy lots of shows on my DVR specifically because I don't have time every day to sit down and watch TV -- giving me a 24-hour window won't help much, and effectively discourages me from buying in the first place.
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Same thing for the guy who says "why not just pull the HD and get the video from it".. well, if you could find it, you'd find it's encrypted.
DRM hurts consumers. Period. I guarantee that people that were going to share the content anyway will not be hindered in the least.
I don't understand how Hollywood expects to compete with filesharing, when the product you get through filesharing is VASTLY SUPERIOR to what Hollywood's pushing. I can watch it when I want on whichever device I wish. --being free of charge is just an added bonus
The MPAA and RIAA are just two rats on a sinking ship.
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It's Piracy
That is not spite. That is piracy.
I think it is hilarious that people say, "Add protection will create added piracy". The fact of the matter is that piracy is rampant now and will continue to be that way unless media companies protect themselves.
Pirates create piracy and by reading the number of open posts in this thread extolling piracy, we have a lot of pirates.
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All this "protecting" that media companies do simply hurts honest consumers and makes these products less valuable to them.
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However, I think your logic that companies have to protect themselves from pirates is faulty. Yes, piracy is rampant now, but why is it rampant? Because people have an idea of what they want to do with content and they are being denied the ability to do it. And I mean basic things like, "watch the shows I enjoy when it's convenient to me," and "play the movie I own on any device I own" and other things like that. Content providers can either work to provide the services their customers want, or put up roadblocks against their customers to "protect" the way they do business.
They've chosen the latter route, abusing their customers rather than changing (even slightly) their business. The music industry is a great case study here: AmazonMP3, In Rainbows, and Ghosts I-IV prove that people are still willing to pay for music (even if it's available for free!) if you make available to them in a convienient way for the uses they want.
Companies should serve their customers, not 'protect' themselves from them. (Nevermind that these 'protections' have proven useless in stopping piracy.)
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Too late. Your browser already copied it to cache. You may go turn yourself in now. Don't make Mike Burda come after you.
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It'll only effect their bottom line
By putting this 24 hour constraint on people it makes them less likely to use DirectTV services. I was considering satellite, definitely not getting DirectTV. Really hurts DirectTV as it makes their revenue generating pvr and ppv services much less attractive.
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I was a subscriber to DirecTV for over ten years. I just recently moved to an apartment where I can't receive the signal (facing east instead of west). DirecTV shot themselves in the foot when they quit their partnership with TiVO. Their new DVR system is the absolute worst DVR system I have ever used & I'm with Time Warner right now and their system is pretty bad. Thats why I'm building my own DVR now, where the software automatically edits out the commercials, I pay absolutely no monthly fee & I can watch everything that I download. I didn't mind pay an extra fee for the convenience but they all keep on getting greedier & greedier.
The cable companies, music industry, & the movie industry is driving people to look for alternatives of getting their programming. Because of the cost of many things now I haven't purchased a movie or a CD in YEARS!! I still buy them but I will never pay full price, I'll go to the used places and buy them there @ a 1/4 of the price.
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They just don't get it
My favorite time to purchase a PPV movie is 2am midweek when my tuner isn't busy showing some other program, and my favorite time to watch one is the weekend. Why should that be so terrible?
Oh, and one other thing: how exactly is anybody financially harmed if I record "Cars" and my son watches it every day for a month? The PPV price is pretty fair compared to buying the DVD given that you saved the studio all kinds of manufacturing and distribution costs.
Talk about Artificial Scarcity!
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Imagine the PPV cost is, oh, $12. If you pay that once and save to the DVR, you pay $12. If you're made to pay it every 24 hours, that's, what, $360? *gasp!* You're stealing $348 worth of content! You should be ashamed.
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Oh, its much worse than that. Wikipedia says the budget for Cars was 120 million. Therefore, every time you watch the movie, if you don't pay $120 million per viewer you're obviously stealing cold, hard cash directly from the poor voice actors, artists, etc. How do you expect these poor people to live if you don't pay up (handing the money, of course, to some nice gentlemen in suits and trusting that they'll actually make sure those folks get their share)? The way I see it, you owe these folks 3.6 billion dollars! They may also accept limbs and organs if you beg and grovel.
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Hollywood started it!
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DVR and
Since it is burned to disc, it is outside of the control of the studios. It is not HD, but I find that standard DVD / TV quality is adequate - we only have one TV, a 36" Toshiba HDTV ready device I bought a long time ago, and I have no expectation of replacing it before it dies.
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It's not just DTV
Trust me, we don't like it (that's not an official statement of DTV), but we pretty much have no choice if we want to keep our PPV provider contracts.
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Easy
The weirdos in the entertainment industry need to get a clue and realize you can control every single solitary instance of how your content is viewed; people will do what they want to do, and if you make it a PITA for them they will simply (one hopes) stop buying your crap.
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Just because they are trying to protect their movies from being saved on dvr doesn't mean they are trying to piss you off. You understand you are paying for a view of the movie or the movie for a time frame. Even with true on-demand you can only watch it for 24 hours.
If I understand the way the satellite service works - the program come on every 30 minutes or hour or 2 hours or whatever and you can save it then. You don't need to save it for more than 24 hours. If you are so busy that it takes you 24 hours to watch it by pausing it while you have time than you really just don't have time to enjoy a movie.
If you all are truly worried about being able to enjoy what you pay for you will drop the silly arguments. If you just want to "own" the movie for a rental price than say so.
Yes there are many ways to illegally enjoy movies good for you, you are a thief, whether you like it or not. The product is for sale you don't want to pay for it so you "pirate" it.
I have been on the side of digital distribution for a long time. But it is arguments like this that make me think we have turned into a bunch of moochers waiting for the next free entertainment.
I understand about business models and how free works. If you "choose" that business model I applaud you and I even agree with it and support it. But just because someone doesn't want to give you their product doesn't mean they are stupid. If you are willing to stea...err "pirate" their product than it has value to you. If it has no value to you stop bitching because they won't give it to you.
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If you're talking about copyright infringement, that's not theft. People who go around calling it that are liars.
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I love DTV's service and selection. Also you can't really blame them for not letting you have your way. I bet if they didn't do this the movie studios would take them to court and sue the piss out of them like they do everything else they don't like.
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I am tired of having to call these morons every month and tell them how to do their jobs. Maybe they should pay more than minimum and hire some Americans instead of third world dim wits.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT
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Well...Part III
I don't work for any of those people. I am mildly in the entertainment business but only in the Non_profit sense. In one instance the non-profit is an organization, the other instance I am a non-profit artist because I am not good enough to make a profit. So I do web development for bread and butter and entertain for the fun of it.
I hat analogies because there are always holes in them, but here's one:
If you saw a car for sale for $20,000 but you didn't think it was worth that much you can't just take it and keep it without paying for it because you think it isn't worth what they are asking. I know you can't copy a car but the analogy is in the fact that the people selling crappy music and crappy movies have a right to charge whatever they want, and to do whatever they want with it.
This article isn't even about any of the AA's it is about the studios, the actual owners of the product.
Stop the argument that the product sucks so it is ok if you steal it. Again if people want to give away music or movies, I actually think it has merit. But don't go bitching about people not wanting to give you stuff that they sell.
If this model is outdated and I am not saying it isn't, let Darwin do its thing and keep bitching about the model but don't try and argue that you steal their stuff or rent it in a way that they don't allow because the content sucks.
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The major flaw with your analogy is that if I steal the car, you no longer have it. For movies or music, if I pirate the content you still have it and can still sell it but now I have a copy. There is no loss to you -- only a theoretical loss that maybe I would have bought the content, but now I have it for free. There are many problems with counting that theoretical loss as an actual loss.
Now, there are many, many people that would not resort to piracy if content distributors (not creators, but that's another argument) didn't try to lock down the content.
If I buy a movie or a CD and take it home I can play it in my entertainment center or my computer. Well, I've got a Video iPod and I'd like to listen to that CD and watch that movie on my iPod. The *AAs don't want me to be able to do that, so I have to break the DMCA law if I want to put the movie on my iPod.
Now, I can put the CD on my iPod. Then I get to work and want to put the music on my work computer. But, I can't do that because you can't copy music from the iPod to another computer. I could carry my CD collection with me wherever I go, but that's kind of a pain.
I've already paid my $15 for the CD and my $20 for the DVD. Back when it was cassette tapes & VHS, it was perfectly legal, fair use if you will, to make copies of my cassette & vhs so I could keep one at home, one in the car, one at work, and maybe one at the vacation home. But now doing so is illegal and the only thing that changed is the medium on which the content is delivered.
The content distributors used to be happy getting my $15 and my $20 for the content, and then I could use it as I saw fit. Now the content distributors want $15 and $20 for every device I'd like to use the content on.
Does that make any sense at all? Of course they want to make money, but this is ridiculous. This is the reason piracy is rampant. As other have mentioned above, these tactics have turned piracy from a small subset of user into the status quo of getting content.
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Yeah, like lies are no big deal to you, huh?
I don't work for any of those people.
You've already shown yourself to be a liar and in my experience liars are often like alcoholics; they can't stop with just one. So when you say that don't you don't work for any of those people I find it very hard to believe.
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Again if you don't want to pay to see a movie "cuz it sucks", don't. If you "Get it for free" by methods that the owner or distributor do not allow, you are stealing. Simple.
Other than that, I am not arguing against any of your points never was. I am for fair use, legal or not, it doesn't hurt the industry and I never said it did.
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My biggest problem is that they changed the rules because the delivery medium changed. For some reason, Congress can't see that copying the DVD is the same as copying the VHS tape and they've made copying the DVD illegal.
Fair use is fair use. Both Congress and the distributors think that DRM will stop piracy -- it won't. Unlocking the content for honest users will reduce the amount of piracy. Most people out there aren't going to make a ton of copies for family and friends, or put content up on torrent sites. They just want to use the content.
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If you stayed over for a movie and by doing that cost the theatre a paying customer because they were out of seats, then you've injured the theatre. This does not hold true with watching a PPV movie/event twice. The cost associated in getting the data to you has already been paid for in the initial transaction.
How long until you're told that you're not allowed to *remembe*r a PPV event longer than 24 hours?
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Time shifting is legal for material that comes without restriction (ie, over the air broadcasts) but PPV is a different animal. You are paying for both access and access at a specific point in time, not an unlimited personal use license (which is what over the air grants you) but rather a limited single use license.
DirecTV would in fact be well withing their rights to block PPV movies from the DVR altogether, but they are playing nice and giving you a pretty big window to enjoy your movie. If you didn't have time to watch the movie, why order it? If you wanted to watch it tomorrow, then order it on PPV tomorrow.
Perhaps you would like the studios to deliver you a DVD copy for the price of a PPV viewing?
Unrealistic expectations of the ignorant "data wants to be free" shills.
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If you'd like to cite any court cases that say time shifting PPV is illegal then please do. Otherwise, I'm calling bullshit.
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Networks and studios know that they can't impose strict limitations on home recording overnight. If they did, the customers would revolt and other companies would spring up to offer people more choice.
The ultimate goal is to restrict and control ALL home recording. To do this, they need to gradually restrict how and what you can record. First they start with the PPV shows. Next it will be network specials, like the Grammy awards. Then there will be some shows that can't be recorded or kept, because they're "special". Finally, once everyone is using a networked DVR provided by their satellite or cable company, they will be able to impose strict rules on what can be recorded and for how long. Nobody will oppose them because at each step of the way, people will say "Oh well, there's so much other content that not being able to record that one thing won't matter." Once they realize that they're no longer in control of the recording, it will be too late because there won't be any other options.
If anyone thinks that I'm just being paranoid, let me ask you this; What would you have said if 30 years ago (for those who are old enough) I told you that in the future, all channels would have a logo permanently stuck in the corner of the screen, banner ads across the botton of the picture after every commercial break, end credits that you can't read because they're so small or go by so fast, more ads instead of ending music and a full 1/3 of every program devoted to commercials? Would you have called me paranoid?
What if 5 years ago, I told you that all of the above, with the exception of commercials, would also start happening on the premium movie channels? Most now have logos on the screen, Showtime and some others shrink the end credits and mute the music to show ads and Showtime even started putting banner ads across the bottom of the picture to advertise other shows.
When it comes to the studios and networks, they will go absolutely as far as people will let them. When they do one thing and people let them get away with it, they start working on the next step, and the next, and the next...
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Vote with your wallet -- have them disable PPV on your account
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Direct TV Pay per view movies expiration
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WE HAVE TO SUPPORT BOOTLEG I WILL RENT MY MOVIES AND RIP AND MAKE A COPY EVERY ONE SHOULD STOP ORDERING ALL MOVIES
THAT WILL BE A BIG LOSS TO THE MOVIE PEOPLE THE MOVIE PEOPLE JUST DONT GET IT WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY 3.99
FOR A MOVIE THEY CANT KEEP ON THIR DVR THE REASON IS TO TIME SHIFT AND I TELLING ALL THAT THIS IS ONLY THE START WHATS NEXT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO STORE HBO MOVIES AS WELL THAT IS COMING NEXT IF CABLE AND DIRECTV LET THIS HAPPEN
THE CABLE AND DIRECTV SHOULD STOP ALL PPV AS REVOLT
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Ruins the entire experience-especially the HD PPV movies which are much better than BluRay in my opinion.
DirectTv will suffer.
If this expands to premium channels--I will cancel service
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still, don't switch to dish
HOWEVER .. dish network might not have this policy .. but they also don't let you DVR PPV at all! they suck more.
but .. i won't be getting ppv from direct anymore. at least, not after the 15th ...
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Agree or disagree with the move...
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Hollywood toadies
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Deleting Movies that have been paid for
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Disconnected Directv after 14 years as a customer
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DirectTV DVR Will Delete Pay-Per-View Shows
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Expiring Pay Per View recordings
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datebook?
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datebook?
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It's less than 24 hrs!
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24 hour delete
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Re: ripped off again
I stopped buying tapes/cds/dvds a decade ago.
I have now stopped buying ppv movies.
The only way to stop the drain on your wallet from media companies is to stop giving them your money. YOU ARE IN CONTROL, DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY!!!
OK, maybe that was over the top. I'm all for intellectual property rights. I'm not particularly excited about intellectual property ownership abuse.
There is one thing that disturbs me. It seems that capitalism (which I am a big fan of, by the way) has a very short vision horizon. It seems to be all about the next quarterly SEC profit report. Such short term horizons lends itself to errors in customer development. Maybe the term is more like customer encouragement. These companies do want more customers, right?
The current trends seem to me as customer discouragement. I, for one, am a less valuable customer. At least under their new rules.
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Direct TV DVR
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You can prevent Directv from deleting your PPV's!
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Listen Up!
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Re: Listen Up!
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24 hr PPV limit
It translates to me that I am a criminal? What happen to your innocent until proven guilty? If I could actually watch a movie all the way though in 24 hrs I would rent it from blockbuster or net flix.
As the economy in my state gets worse, taxes higher, wages lower I looked for ways to cut cost. When the VCR died, we opted not to purchase another or a DVD player. Instead we got the dish and 2 DVR.
It was great. I could actually watch a movie over three days and not have to run around trying to program a VCR, find a tape.
It makes no sense. Why put a time limit on it. Just block it so multiple copies can't be made. Why do they care how long I keep it my my DVR.
Cable and satellite providers should be fight this battle for us. They collect enough in revenues.
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Speak up re 24 Hr PPV limit
Here is some print on the subject from Wikipedia under the Broadcast Flag topic
Pay-per-view movies on DVR
Since April 15, 2008, pay-per-view movies on cable and satellite television have been flagged so that recordings cannot stay on a digital video recorder or other related device for more than 24 hours after the movie begins. The change was a result of negotiations between the major movie studios and the PPV providers. Movies recorded before April 15 are still available from the device.[1]
So, I suggest we flood the major movie studios and the FCC Chairman and the Motion Picture Association of America and send the message that the people watching PPV movies are the criminals they presume us to be and boycott anything related to that industry. Thus my grandsons will not be getting the Kung Fu Panda toys they've been asking for
Here is the address to write to MPAA Office of the Chairman and CEO
Washington, DC
1600 Eye St., NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 293-1966 (main)
(202) 296-7410 (fax)
and send an email to the chairman of the FCC
Chairman Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov
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Sad, sad, sad
But I agree with the Professor. This is not always an option and idiotic. What if there is a one-time event being shown (even if for an entire day of repeated showings) and I'll be away at the time and want to record it to watch when I return? Wait for the DVD? Doesn't this defeat the entire principle of DVR (Digital Video RECORDING)? Might as well disconnect the DVR, get cable, and watch everything live (like in the olden days, kids).
I realize that this is only PPV. But will they start pushing it into the movie channels (HBO, etc.) and then the cable channels and then what? We really will be back to the olden days and DishNetwork, DirectTV, et al will be gone-bye-bye. Maybe the survival instinct will kick in here before it's too late? :)
Good luck...
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24 hour PPV
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Re: 24 hour PPV
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Movies
- Cheap Guy
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Lucky me.
Luckily for me...not one PPV has deleted from our TiVo.
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I can understand studios not wanting me to record Cars and let my kids watch it weekly for the rest of the year...that's what a DVD is for. But a 24 hour rental just doesn't work well.
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Pay Per View
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Why?
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Deleting recorded PPV movies on DirecTV
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We fell asleep bout 20 mins into the movie and had a busy day the next day and didnt get home till 8pm so we could have watched 1 hr of the movie then poof its gone. i personally will go with netflix and the rental stores as i can watch on my time. and no matter what the blowhards say that is what all the tech of todays age are geared for is doing leisure type things on your time. would you like it if you go to the rental store and rent a movie and they require you to bring it back in wsay 4 hrs cause what i read here is that "you only should get a movie when you plan to watch it".
this new process is lame and unreasonable in todays environment imo.
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Direct TV expiration date on free programs.
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Dumb Ass
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DIRECTV and DISH NETWORK
Dish Network is better on entertainment packages. On the other hand they are pretty similar, both are better than cable.
To know more about the between DIRECTV and DISH NETWORK just visit: http://www.thesatellitecompany.com/
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It is called Greed. This will be the last PPV we ever - ever - buy from Directv.com.
We are embarrassed.
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Smh at the things ppl complain abt
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Help needed with getting DVR!
Hi, guys can someone guide me about getting a DVR. I am a die-hard football fan but owing to my odd working hours, i miss out on a few games. I am seriously considering about changing my Cable provider and getting services from a service provider that offers DVR and internet in affordable prices. TIA
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Re: Help needed with getting DVR!
You can look into variety of providers in US. For DVR, I would recomment Xfinity deals since they give a lot of benefits with a reasonable price, plus some of their DVRs support up to 2TB of storage which means you can save your favourite shows
Here is the link: http://www.localcabledeals.com/
You can also opt in for DishTV if your area doesn't support cable services
Here's the link
https://www.directv.com/
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Re: Re: Help needed with getting DVR!
Thanks Max,
Is there a way i can combine TV, internet, and phone and get a single bill at the end of the month?? Also, can someone please recommend a service provider offering a feature where i can see whose calling while watching a TV show?
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Re: Re: Re: Help needed with getting DVR!
Hi Donald Wilson, Spectrum Triple Play Silver is an answer to your wording. here is a link from you can get more information about spectrum internet plans and many more.
https://internetproviders.tv/providers/spectrum/
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