Thread: SD SD and STB's to go by 2020 claims David Elstein.
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Old 18-03-2014, 14:26   #49
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Re: SD and STB's to go by 2020 claims David Elstein.
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Originally Posted by bamav View Post
Assuming the technology all works - and why wouldn't it!? ;-)

What if someone told you all you need to do is simply tick a box beside any programme or movie on the TV guide or in On Demand, and you then go to "your shows" and all those programmes were available to you - in HD if you prefer. You may even have an option to say keep until I watch / remove. And what if it was virtually unlimited (subject to VM fair usage policy I would guess).

All we'll need is a smart TV or an HDMI dongle. And if you don't have an HD TV yet, get one!! Stop paying VM for a few months and save up for one! ;-)

I agree, current cloud solutions are great at storing large amounts of data. With the appropriate infrastructure, all they're adding is the means to view that data - in this case video. I don't "see" any difference between on-demand content and my TiVo recordings.
The good thing about recordings is that you have actually selected in advance what you want to watch. The problem with On Demand is that you cannot select the programmes in advance in the same way. That means you have to flog through all the programmes each time to see what is available that you fancy watching.

If only you could flag the stuff you wanted to watch on the system, so that you could get a 'My Shows' section in the On Demand selection. That would be a good advance for me. But slotting all the recordings that you've made into the On Demand section would be a nightmare to sort out!
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