It's interesting that this was a reversal on appeal. Brian writes that it's unclear whether the case will be appealed. I don't know what recourse they have, but I think it's very clear that if the networks have any recourse whatsoever to delay the decision or reverse it back in their favor, they will avail themselves to it.

Just offsite vs. onsite is no particular advantage for the customer if everything works exactly the same and you have to pick what shows to record, season pass, etc. though even that seemingly would allow more flexibility. you could conceivably record 5 shows airing at 10pm without the need to have a box that supports multiple tuners. But again, I'm looking at it as something that more than inches us to everything on-demand. On Demand works great (minus the lousy UI to navigate programs). But while it offers a lot of content on-demand, it is still only a tiny subset of all programs available to me.