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Originally Posted by passingbat
The cloud is going to be a whole new ball game and the number of recordable tuners may well be totally irrelevant, depending how they implement it.
Do we have personally allocated space on VM servers, or are all programmes recorded an we stream the ones we want to watch? Is it somehow a mixture of both?
Possibly of more concern, is how long will cloud recordings be available for? Until we know more details of the cloud implementation, regarding the numbers of tuners, we're whistling in the wind IMHO.
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Exactly.
As I said, I would be a little bit suspicious of VM saying we can access "our" recordings in the cloud. I don't think they'll be "our" recordings at all, simply VOD - video on demand.
The evidence it may go down this way is on the other thread which talks about the new tivo software. Richard Coulter has said there is a new bookmarks feature on there. Again, as already said, I believe we won't be accessing "our" recordings in the cloud, but simply bookmarking VOD shows.
So, it's VERY relevant how long shows are kept by VM on their VOD servers then, especially if they're meant to be "our" recordings.
But then again, perhaps VM/Liberty have raided their piggy banks and spent a whole load of money on hard discs or renting substantial amounts of cloud storage from someone else, so we can keep "our" recordings in the cloud. And of course, pigs might fly.