THIS VIDEO RECORDER HAS SOME ENEMIES

摘要

If you wanted to build a consumer-electronics product designed to drive the entertainment industry nuts, it would be hard to beat SONICblue's ReplayTV 4000 (www.re-playtv.com). While basically a personal video recorder that gives you an easy way to record shows onto a big hard drive, Replay claims the ability to delete commercials automatically during playback and to send recorded programs to other Replay owners over the Internet. An assortment of outraged broadcasters and cable programmers has asked a federal court to block the sale of the product.