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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 to c/technology

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Customers originally had 365 days to enjoy the recordings.

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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