Sorry to hear some of you are having such trouble with your internet. Mine hasn’t gone down in a very long time. Nor have I experienced any power cuts for years.
Some of you seem to be of the view that the consumer actually has a choice in the matter when it is quite obvious that broadcasters are doing their best to encourage people in that direction. The BBC, ITV and Sky are all at it, as is Virgin Media.
Yes, jfman, it is all down to the money to be made, and while the TV channels are still able to make money now, there will come a point before long where most of those still choosing to watch scheduled TV rather than on demand will be viewers in the lower income bracket, who are of less interest to the advertisers.
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Originally Posted by epsilon
No, it is actually recording to "the cloud", or a remote hard-drive. The recordings are as aired, complete with adverts. They may or may not be skippable, depending on the provider. They can't generally be pulled "at any time" but often have expiry dates. The expiry date is similar to bookmarks but programmes which aren't made available on demand can be recorded in the cloud.
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Yes, I get that, but my point was that the consumer will no longer have a hard drive on which to make their recordings.
I accept the technical difference you have explained in terms of how ‘recording to the cloud’ works, but consumers will not distinguish between that and bookmarking.