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Originally Posted by RobboEdin
I disagree with your figures.
In my experience an hour of UHD recording is between 8 and 10 GB.
Say a football match is two hours and assuming the higher figure, that makes 20 GB or 2% of a 1 TB V6.
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I don't know where your 8-10 Gb per hour comes from, but
Your calculations are too simplistic, my figures are based on actual experience of recordings.
Have you taken the following into account :-
A HD football recording takes 2%, a UHD recording takes 5%.
Football recordings of a match are usually around 3 hours with before and afters.
I have recorded the same on UHD and HD as I was interested how much disk space they take.
I don't know how much, but I suspect some of the 1Tb is used for software, EPG etc (certainly is on sky boxes)
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Originally Posted by jfman
I fail to see how it could reasonably be described as having no obstacles.
The difference to broadcasters is you have a finite amount of recording space. So while you may keep a limited amount of content (and most of it temporarily) this would allow almost four million households to hold a significant back catalogue of broadcast television through series links without ever having to worry about running out of space.
All the while some of the same content providers are considering a subscription platform for their back catalogues. As Hugh points out content providers want more control of reruns and overseas distribution, not less.
Liberty will have more success with this in non-English speaking markets where distribution through cable is more likely to be the platform of choice for delivery of any enhanced services and the content providers aren’t also the owners of rival platforms.
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I would have thought there would be 1 recording of a program in the cloud with some way of finding it stored on your V6. Possibly a marker with the cloud address?.
Seriously doubt each person will have their own mini-cloud with recordings just for them - that would end up with an infinite amount of space being required.
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Why not just offer 2Tb or 4Tb V6 boxes? There was originally supposed to be a 2Tb option, this was quietly dropped by Virgin.