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March 31, 2005
Department of Useless Technology - "Start Over"
Posted by Ernest Miller
Mutichannel News reports that Time Warner Cable will be introducing new cable technology that is as useful as hitching posts for those new-fangled auto-mobiles (Time Warner to ‘Start Over’ on DVR):
[I]f a customer came home at 9:15 p.m. and wanted to watch a program that started at 9 p.m., he or she could hit the Start Over button on their remote and watch the program from the beginning.
Users of the feature would also have to watch all of the commercials during the program -- Start Over disables the fast-forward feature on the remote. That pleased broadcasters, which have fretted over customers speeding through commercials on their DVRs.
This would have been pretty dosh garn neat sometime last century. Let me one of the first to predict the demise of this "unnovative" new technology.
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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