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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?
On 15-Jan-2007, at 08:48, Michal Krsek wrote: This system works perfectly in our linear-line distribution (channels). As user you can choose time you want to see the show, but not the show itself. Capacity on PVR device is finite and if you don't want to waste the space with any broadcasted content you have to program the device. I have ten channels in my cable TV and sometimes I'm confused what to record. Beeing in the US and paid for ~100 channels will make me mad to crawl channel schedules :-) These are all UI details. The (Scientific Atlanta, I think) PVRs that Rogers Cable gives subscribers here in Ontario let you specify the *names* of shows that you like, rather than selecting specific channels and times; I seem to think you can also tell it to automatically ditch old recorded material when disk space becomes low. One thing that may not be obvious to people who haven't had this misfortune of consuming it at first hand is that North American TV, awash with channels as it is, contains a lot of duplicated content. The same episode of the same show might be broadcast tens of times per week; the same advertisement might be broadcast tens of times per hour. How much more programming would the existing networks support if they were able to reduce those retransmissions, relying on the ubiquity of set-top boxes with PVR functionality? Joe
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