TiVo and television restrictions in context
I recently wrote a fairly long post to Dave Farber's list about some of the context around TiVo, "convergence", and regulation of receivers for various kinds of television. There are some definite oversimplifications in my post, but if you follow copyright or are curious about what I've been working on, you might enjoy reading it.
As a spoiler, here's my conclusion:
In terms of end user control, there is an opportunity for CE devices to converge up (enhancing customers' control) and a risk of PC devices converging down (eroding it). I think the world the entertainment companies have built is providing exactly the wrong incentive at every point as this question is worked out.
