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

• IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean it was literally advertised as year long storage.

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    • Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These things came out when 250GB storage was still a lot for a 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.

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • null@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are you lost? Read the post we’re commenting on…

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      • thyme@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “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.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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    • timetraveller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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