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Skie · 29-04-2014, 22:15

The perverse thing is due to overzealous rights holders what would be a rather good service capable of increasing viewership will likely be knobbled into something that has to do a lot of silly things just to appease Hollywood and their TV arms.

The sensible thing would be to just record everything that gets broadcast and then dish that up as video on demand whenever someone sets a recording. Seamless and cost effective. Anything past a day old that nobody has flagged to record is purged (though you could keep them for 7 to act as a universal catch-up service).

But the reality will probably be that each show is recorded and stored per customer who wanted it recording. There might even be channel or show based restrictions if a certain company refuses to allow cloud based storage of their show. Look at how aero in the US have had to come up with a way to remain legal.

It will be interesting to see if they can work around the idiocy of the media old guard. If not, piracy will continue to be the most convenient method to view shows.

29-04-2014, 22:15	#10
Skie a giant headend Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Liverpool Posts: 1,169	Re: Virgin Media testing a cloud-based recording system The perverse thing is due to overzealous rights holders what would be a rather good service capable of increasing viewership will likely be knobbled into something that has to do a lot of silly things just to appease Hollywood and their TV arms. The sensible thing would be to just record everything that gets broadcast and then dish that up as video on demand whenever someone sets a recording. Seamless and cost effective. Anything past a day old that nobody has flagged to record is purged (though you could keep them for 7 to act as a universal catch-up service). But the reality will probably be that each show is recorded and stored per customer who wanted it recording. There might even be channel or show based restrictions if a certain company refuses to allow cloud based storage of their show. Look at how aero in the US have had to come up with a way to remain legal. It will be interesting to see if they can work around the idiocy of the media old guard. If not, piracy will continue to be the most convenient method to view shows.