While peer-to-peer sharing certainly gets its fair share of critics, the sharing, caring approach to distributing media definitely has its useful (and legal) benefits, and now NDS has announced "two new product enhancements of Synamedia Metro, the NDS IPTV middleware solution, " which looks to bring P2P technology to the DVR.

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Cable's solution to this is middleware software originally called OpenCable Application Platform ( OCAP) and more recently renamed to simply: OpenCable.

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This inexpensive solution paves the way for an entirely new generation of middleware software and applications to be developed in an open source environment.

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