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Cablevision's network DVR, long delayed by court battles with the entertainment industry, finally reached some homes in April, having cleared its final legal hurdles.

These next-generation RS-DVRs use remote server storage in lieu of a local hard drive. Hollywood had claimed that storing content on a server violated copyright law but a court disagreed.

Among the new DVR's features, it can pause live TV while displaying a Caller ID onscreen. While this is only a "limited deployment," if successful, it could signal the way DVRs will work in the future, both for Cablevision and other cable operators. Some are hailing this as the advent of cloud based computing. See Light Reading Cable.

Oh, and Cablevision promises not to disable the fast forward control to appease advertisers. See Ars Technica.