Pandora Meets Genius

In the past week I was talking to someone about what would happen if you
came home and found that your DVR was filled with shows similar in genre
to what you had already recorded. Sort of Amazon meets Genius meets
Pandora. In the October issue of Broadcast
Engineering, Craig Birkmaier discusses locally caching content. It
would be interesting if your DVR could hunt out content not only on
cable (like TiVo) but on the web as well. But the article concludes by
raising the issue about what happens to this model if content owners can
buy preferential placement (think Ad Words). What would happen if you
came home and your DVR was filled with episodes of The O’Reilly Factor
and Make Money On eBay ?