IPTV in many countries is legal to stream but illegal to record. It just needs access to the entire stream. No extra software is needed (Other than a HD). That's why it would have to be turned on from the server end. In order to record, you would need access to the entire stream, not bits and pieces. IPTV streaming involves using protocols adapted for simultaneous downloading and playing. Streaming works because your Mag (the client) and the server talk to each other. None of the file is stored for very long.

Instead, you're downloading a bit of a file, playing it, and, while it's playing, simultaneously downloading the next part of the file ready to play in a moment or two. When you connect to the IPTV server, you're not downloading it like an ordinary file. Granted this is analog but until the box manufacturers support the recording feature this is the best I have.IPTV is completely different from using a Satellite receiver. When I have the AVOV plugged into the DVD machine it records the video and I can pause live TV and rewind, and with enough buffer time I can fast forward all done through the DVD machine. My DVD recorder has a hard drive in it so it has PVR capabilities. Now, as far as a work around to the lack of the recording feature that our boxes do not come with, I plug my AVOV box into my DVD recorder and when something comes on I hit record on the DVD machine. Granted this is analog but until the box manufacturers support the recording feature this is the best I have. If the box manufacturers wrote recording software and provided a firmware update we could record the data coming into our boxes regardless of what the servers supposed capabilities are. Guess what, I can still record because they don't have control over my receivers software. They do this on occasion with some PPV and special events. Dish Network can stop the capability to record from their end because they have software control over their receivers. I hit record and the show records to a hard drive because the receiver manufacture wrote software to do it. It doesn't work any differently than our satellite receivers.

The data flows into our box and our box simply puts the data on a hard drive, memory stick, or whatever as long as the box has the software to do it. It has to be a feature enabled on our boxes.

Why do people keep saying recording has to be enabled at the server end? It does not.

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