I don't think anyone is under the impression that anything about the model of charging retransmission fees for one-to-many streaming is going anywhere. If it di

I don't think anyone is under the impression that anything about the model of charging retransmission fees for one-to-many streaming is going anywhere. If it did, then sure, cable companies could do what they do today and simply not pay fees. But that possibility isn't even on the table right now. I don't think DVR fundamentally has anything to do with the transcoding. You could just store and time-shift the native stream and get rid of the transcoders. I suspect that the transcoding is done primarily to conserve bandwidth. To me, the DVR is pretty much a settled question under Cartoon Network vs. Cablevision [1]. The real question is whether Aereo is allowed to rent you an antenna. [1] http://betanews.com/2009/06/29/cable-dvrs-are-legal-supreme-court-denies-appeal-of-cablevision-decision/ http://betanews.com/2009/06/29/cable-dvrs-are-legal-supreme-...