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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
You would need to store every program broadcast and have it available quickly.
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That's entirely feasible with modern hard drive sizes, even more so if you de-duplicate repeat showings. It's a lot less than the disc capacity of 3 million TiVos. Consider how many copies of Eastenders are held on all those TiVos, when a single copy could be shared between them all.
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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
Unless content becomes time limited somehow so you can only store/watch for a defined period after recording.
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That's not really a consideration. Content would be time limited on in-home PVRs if the content owners wanted it to be. On the other hand, you are far more likely to lose content due to a hardware failure of an in-home PVR than of a RAID in a nice air-conditioned data centre.