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TV to DVR to...Razr?

TV to DVR to...Razr?

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor
Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.
Molly Wood
Motorola is hopping on the TV-on-your-cell-phone bandwagon, announcing this week at CTIA that it'll offer sometime in 2007. You'll be able to access your DVR and program it remotely. Despite the DVR-to-Mobile name, though, you can access content from your DVR only by docking your phone in a cradle at your actual house. Beyond that immediate bit of letdown, Motorola spokesman Paul Alfieri says that "rights management issues are still being worked out" with the whole shebang. Go right ahead and translate that as "you'll see this around the same time as never."