Cablevision gets go-ahead on DVR

August 04, 2008 A U.S. appeals court ruled that Cablevision Systems Corp. may go forward with its plan to introduce a new digital video recorder service that film studios and television networks had said violated their copyrights. Reversing a lower court ruling, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York said Cablevision's proposed new service "would not directly infringe plaintiffs' exclusive rights to reproduce and publicly perform their copyrighted works." Cablevision appealed a March 2007 ruling in which it lost a battle to introduce a network-based DVR system, called Remote Storage Digital Video Recorder, or RS-DVR, which would allow subscribers to store TV programs on the cable operator's computer servers.

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