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Originally Posted by Hugh
Too much money to be made (including for the actors) in re-runs and sales to other markets.
Keeping "everything" on the cloud, free to access by customers, would destroy that model.
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No, it would not, provided there was a time limit. As I said earlier, it's just another method of recording.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Giving users the ability to record/bookmark to the cloud would, in the five year example, have huge negative implications for BBC/ITV etc. Right now I’d have to decide if something was in the top 500 hours (HD) of content I wish to retain. I’d also be committed to retaining that single STB, with it’s failure or if I choose to upgrade I would lose out.
If the cloud was set up with everyone sharing the same source recordings the amount a user could retain would be virtually infinite.
If a user could go back and say, rewatch the whole of Line of Duty or Broadchurch, in my view it’d impact on the resale rights by those production companies or the success of any future “Netflix style” operation they have planned.
If there was any reasonable chance of this launching here I believe we’d have it by now or be in very advanced development. Liberty already have nearly 2m STBs out there.
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Well, the 5-year limit already applies elsewhere. There's a limit to how much you can actually watch, anyway!