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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.