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To watch something around the time it comes out and delete it. These things were NEVER advertised as long term media storage.
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.
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.
They were first advertised with hard drives that didn't auto delete anything
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.
You see the difference right? "control over which episodes got auto deleted" means you can have an episode never auto delete.
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.
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.
I mean it was literally advertised as year long storage.
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.
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.
"Where?"
Can you do the bare minimum and read the article before showing off what a dumb ass you are?
Okay, where was it advertised as long term storage? Is 1 year the extent of a media collection? Normal users weren't using it this way. I doubt the majority of people in here have ever really used these devices and are equating them to Plex. People subscribed to cable some care any this shit and I guess that engages everyone.
It's not even something they purchased 🤣 it's a rental through the cable company.
1 full year is a significantly longer term than "around the time it comes out".
Are you lost? Read the post we're commenting on...