Comment on After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings

umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 chill this, but this shit was never ever advertised as some long term storage/media center.

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      • null@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean it was literally advertised as year long storage.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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 defendable about this. Its clearly skeevy, weird thing to bootlick about.

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  • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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