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Tme Warner cable ad says satellite can't "pause live TV"

Technically it would be the Tivo that "pauses" live TV, not the satellite or reciever...so it's probably not false advertising.
 
For once, Time Warner is correct. They do offer a service where you actually pause your cable feed (On Demand). Everyone who has explained this to me has told me that it does not require the DVR, so it's not a TiVo-like device behind the action.

Of course, there's only a few shows available on demand, but the capability exists.
 
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
For once, Time Warner is correct. They do offer a service where you actually pause your cable feed (On Demand). Everyone who has explained this to me has told me that it does not require the DVR, so it's not a TiVo-like device behind the action.

Of course, there's only a few shows available on demand, but the capability exists.
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How the hell does that work? Do they separately broadcast to each home???

Well, the ad also says you can record tv shows, and the DJs promoting on the radio say it's a DVR (I think). So they do sell a Tivo like device in Austin at least.
 
Comcast is testing out a new on demand service. Much like a network accessed video storage, and you can rewind etc, pause and all that stuff.
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
How the hell does that work? Do they separately broadcast to each home???
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From what I understand, yes. Each home has one VOD channel allocated to it. Your cablebox requests a program and it begins broadcast on your VOD channel.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Semantics. With a satellite DVR you can mimic the effect.
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Mimic, yes. That being said, this whole post was about Time Warner claiming satellite can't pause live TV with the thought that TW's claim might be false. I was simply demostrating that it is not.

Citrix: By that logic, nothing on "TV" is live. Even the "live" Oscars were on a 5 second tape delay, to allow for any necessary censoring. Having the cable CO pause an actual channel for you is about as close as you can get to pausing live TV though. They would be broadcasting 30fps of that one frame.
 
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