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After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Customers originally had 365 days to enjoy the recordings.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 43 points 7 months ago (1 children)

whats the point of a dvr then?

[+] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

To watch something around the time it comes out and delete it. These things were NEVER advertised as long term media storage.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They were first advertised with hard drives that didn't auto delete anything

[+] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Lololol one of tivos big features was control over which episodes got auto deleted when you ran out of space. I'm not saying it's dumb you can't control this, but this shit was never ever advertised as some long term storage/media center.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean it was literally advertised as year long storage.

[–] Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

These things came out when 250GB storage was still huge for a custom build computer. I never had one but when at friends houses that did I remember they would always have to talk to each other and see what shows or movies could agree to deleted so they could record something.

Hard drives hold more space now, but movies and shows also take up more space.

[+] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Where? The vast majority are sold with up x hours of runtime. That was how TiVo worked, it would auto delete after you ran out of space or watched an episode. I'm not saying a company should pull a bait and switch if that's what happened here. Just that y'all are imagining where these were sold as long term media collections. Is for millennials and Gen x to get their cable each week instead of streaming from Plex/jellyfin.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago

Are you lost? Read the post we're commenting on...

[–] thyme@leminal.space 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Where?"

Can you do the bare minimum and read the article before showing off what a dumb ass you are?

On May 1, Fibe TV will automatically delete recordings stored on its Cloud PVR (personal video recorder) offering once the recordings hit 61 days of age, as confirmed by Canadian online newspaper Daily Hive. Currently, customers maintain access to recordings stored via Cloud PVR for 365 days.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

control over which episodes got auto deleted

You see the difference right? "control over which episodes got auto deleted" means you can have an episode never auto delete.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure you could just have it stop recording when it got full. There is in any case a big difference between auto delete to make space and deleting on a timer base regardless of what the user wants or the space involved. My family had series we kept for years on it and would rewatch whenever.

Don't know what is defendable about this. Its clearly skeevy, weird thing to bootlick about.

[–] timetraveller@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

My TiVo was the "upgraded" internal storage of 500GB or something back in the day.

• Per show, select if you wanted to keep forever, or delete when drive was full • Drive settings allowed for "delete marked files when full" or "stop recording when full".

Seemed as those "choices" where easier programed back then when basic logic was implimented.

The 30-second skip button was also gold.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Given they were required to add an interface to back up your recordings back in the 90s (I think it was the 90s), I'd kind of agree. The DVR itself makes a crappy long term storage, but the spirit is akin to a VCR, totally intended for saving video recordings.

Edit: after a lot of reading, I cannot seem to find a source for what I typed, I must be misremembering things, maybe FireWire was added by the kindness of manufacturers back then.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FireWire was a standard/semi-pro video interface back in the days before HDMI. I thought it was just standard to have them on older equipment.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

FireWire also had DMA, all the good ports seem to go away.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

Shit, I still have a physical DVR and even things I set to never delete will get auto deleted on a whim.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago

That's weird, the 🧲cloud storage🧲 I use never goes away

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Ma Bell at it again...