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I think they are trying to eliminate 'uncontrolled' time shifting through devices that are not computer connected to the cable/sat providers (and have fees associated with them that content providers can ask for a piece of)...
They probably only still sell those for video camera owners so they can put their tapes on DVD....
Hollywood has been trying to kill consumer video recording equipment since it's infancy...What is to say they have not found a route to that in our digital world.
Of course computers are a decent loophole, but it's getting harder to illegally distribute material, and sooner or later there will probably be crap to stop that too.
Analog video has already been killed in new consumer goods at Hollywood's behest...what is logically their next move?.
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