----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ryan Finnesey" <ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com> > > I have TWC in NYC. I see now I can restart most of the shows I watch. > How is this done?
On digital cable systems, it's because your cable box is now really a GoogleTV/Rokubox like thing that only looks like a "cable converter". You tell it to pause, it allocates a channel for you, and -- courtesy of a Supreme Court decision last year -- turns into a remote node for a massive DVR in the headend. Same way they do all the on-demand stuff. Is it the same MPEG encoding that came out of the station/network's MPEG encoder? Almost certainly not. Is it the same bitrate? Hell^no. Cheers, -- jra