I think this feature should be very useful...
...Near-VideoOnDemand (NVoD) is playing continuosly the same film on several channels with a starting time offset of about 30 minutes.
To do this in VLS, we need timers (cyclic or not) to start playing movies/files at needed time and so on.
Every timer should launch a simple command like 'play ....'.
So, it's not so hard to implement, isn't?