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Monday, November 03, 2008
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 ?