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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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.
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The point is that, very grudgingly (they fought against the original VCRs and DVD recorders) content providers have accepted that home-based PVRs are so ingrained in society that they cannot mess with them. Not so, for other services that could interfere with their post-broadcast revenue.
I guess, let's see. I'd like to be wrong. But, there is probably a reason why the next-gen Sky Q still goes with a massive HDD and 12 tuners and why catch-up is still limited to what individual channels will agree, rather than what Sky or Virgin would like to offer.