Time Warner Cable has been facing a backlash from the TV industry ever since it rolled out its live-video-streaming iPad app earlier this month. Now, the cable giant faces one of its first real legal challenges over the app in the form of a cease-and-desist letter from Fox, and it likely won't be the last unless Time Warner can figure out a way to placate the channels that are left.
Time Warner's free iPad app made its debut in mid-March with the ability to stream live TV from more than 30 channels to existing Time Warner cable subscribers. The video was available in high definition and the app only allowed streams of what was currently airing—the company said at the time that video-on-demand capabilities and control over DVR recordings (a la Comcast's iPad app) would come at a later date. Even without these extra features, Time Warner's app was the first from a cable company to go straight to live TV, with Time Warner CEO Rob Marcus declaring that it would "convert any room in a house into a TV room."
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