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Old 04-09-2019, 20:48   #3
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Re: Does Adsmart now take up some of our disc space?

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus View Post
On-demand on Sky uses disk space, it stores information to help avoid buffering while watching content. Likely it does it for Adsmart for the same reasons.

Virgin Media's on-demand tech works consistently well enough it doesn't need to do that, so it will not need to use space on their boxes for the service I'd have thought.
No, targeted ads are downloaded onto the hard drive.

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Sky will send a library of ads over satellite to the hard disc of a Sky+HD set-top box. Based on the information its customers have provided, relevant ads are inserted into live broadcast streams.
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