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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're certainly right about the makers of BluRay recorders not entering the US market, but I'm not so sure about your point about the right to time-shift being unable to be exercised. Most US TV programmes are transmitted with "record once" DRM, which means that they can be recorded on hard disk recorders (ie TiVo-style devices). That allows them to be watched with time-shifting (in accordance with the Betamax decision), but the hard disk recording can't then be copied to any other medium (eg DVD or BluRay) for permanent storage. That seems like a pretty reasonable interpretation of the Betamax decision.
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But that is restricting recording to only one type of device. (DVR) The same flag could be incorporated in a BLU-RAY recorder. The BETAMAX decision was hardware neutral...