Talk:Time shifting

Recording
The information in this article is wrong. It describes time-shifting as something that would better be descibed by the word recording. In fact time-shift is an industry created marketing term promoting a digital vcr's ability to playback a show it is still recording the end of at the time, described in the article as an adititonal feature.

I removed the below sections. Firstly they have little to do with time shifting. Secondly they are deeply American centric, hypothetical, and POV. - SimonP 01:03, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)


 * ==Result==
 * While Universal assumed that the VCR was a threat to its business, it has since made millions :(if not billions) of dollars from the rental and sale of its movies to play in such VCRs. Had :the courts prevented the fair use guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, it would likely :have crippled the industry, including current-day PVRs like TiVo and ReplayTV.


 * ==Future==
 * Currently, the rights of consumers to time-shift are threatened by technology being :pursued by trade organizations like the MPAA and others, and legislation such as :the DMCA. The broadcast flag approved by the FCC is one such limitation, :preventing users from recording a program if the program's owner wishes to do so.  Other :digital restrictions management technologies will prevent recordings from being portable :from one unit to another; thus a person will not be able to send a friend or family member a :show which does not come on in their area, for example.  There are also likely to be problems :even just watching a protected show in the same home, requiring each unit to be registered and :approved by a for-profit corporation representing content owners.  The flag is :unlikely to be activated until customers are well into the new technology, giving them little :if any chance to refuse it.  The latter is more likely to be activated from the start, as it :is part of the design, though it may also be combined with the flag.

Timeshifting
hi, here is another article about the same topic. these two articles should be merged. greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 12:12, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

In European countries
In France there is this tv by satellite company called "Canalsatellite". They provide their users who wish it with a special satellite signal unscrambler called the PILOTIME, that also has a recording function (onto a hard drive). Maybe this could be threwn into the article, though I recommend someone who is actually renting one of these devices do it. http://www.canalsat.fr/pid326.htm --Beforedecay 20:28, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Complete Sentence
The last line in the History section is an incomplete sentence; I don't know the information to finish it. Go Beta.

Slashdot incoming
This article has just been linked to in a slashdot article.. Is it maybe a good idea to semi protect it before it picks up steam? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.197.234.59 (talk) 11:45, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Effects of time shifting
This article does nothing to describe the impact of time shifting beyond the basic "see it later" aspect. Time shifted programs are counted differently when it comes to program viewership ratings. Studios do keep track of the volume and percent of viewership that is "time shifted." But the article doesn't describe the demographic or economic impact related to it.

Time shifting also allows users to skip commercials, repeat sections, watch things in less time and other things that might seem obvious, but also affect advertising revenues and viability of programs in substantial ways.

I'm by no means an expert on any of these things, but they are exactly what I hoped to find out about when I read the article. An article on a TV series with 45% of its viewership from time shifting mentioned its impact in a general sense, but a link to this article was no help in understanding why that 45% was considered irrelevant when counting viewership with respect to that series' survival.

There were also mentions in another article of specific demographic groups being more likely to time shift, thus causing shows with a viewership skewed toward a certain demographic less likely to have them abandon a show when it's moved to a "bad" time slot. But the relevance of a program retaining viewers and losing "live" viewers is not detailed in this article.Hagrinas (talk) 18:08, 28 April 2012 (UTC)