General Electric unit NBC Universal, News Corp. studio Fox, Disney network ABC and CBS sued Cablevision, claiming its proposed new DVR system would allow users to violate the studio's copyrights by making digital copies.

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Apparently the DVR system will utilize a run-of-the-mill Motorola QIP6416 (dual HD-tuners and a 160GB hard drive) as the "hub" and a Motorola QIP2500 (basic STB that can receive content from the hub), both of which will communicate via MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) technology.

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Progress takes time so for now check out a list of HANA's 17 other new members after the break and dream of a day when your HDTV, AV system, set-top box, DVR and PMPs can join hands as sisters and brothers throughout the house with no new wiring or extensive setup necessary.

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The application, run by Google's Android operating system, lets users search for content from their television, DVR and the web.

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The features provided by its Hopper DVR are not default features and a viewer has to engage with the system in order to record primetime shows and watch them ad-free.

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Of course, all of the files would be laced in DRM, and only users of NDS' system would be able to share and access the recorded content, but having a nearly endless supply of DVR'd shows at your disposal sure sounds appealing.

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