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Originally Posted by ase001
I guessing here but:
When they talk about recordings in the cloud, I don't think they actually record the program. They will just keep a record in your profile that you have marked a program as recorded. Access to recorded programs will be from a providers (i.e. ITV) central or regional library pointed to via your profile. These recordings will probably have an expiry date, perhaps 1 month or 1 year. TV companies or Virgin will have the ability to inject advertising into the program that you can't skip when playing back, which is possibly why the TV companies are warming to the idea!!!!
I not sure this correct but I surmising based on current technology and that 4+million customers with 1TB of storage each in the cloud is not going to be cheap, even if the data is de-duplicated? Just think about it, 4+million press record on Coronation Street at the same time or all record 6 programs at once, it would saturated the internet to the cloud!
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I had assumed that only one copy would need to be made and that all customers would access the same copy??
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Originally Posted by Raider999
Unfortunately, I am sure you are correct - not much good if it has time limitation - it will be just like on demand.
I saw a couple of minutes of a program a few months ago, it was the 3rd episode so I recorded the rest of the series and downloaded the 1st 2 from catch-up.
By time we got around to watching it the downloaded first 2 episodes had disappeared - not happy  |
Yes, that's one thing I don't like about On Demand and why I prefer to record everything.