Thousands and Thousands of Hours of PVR TV

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, 2005 @12:20AM from the no-prior-restraint dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Cory Doctorow is posting over at Boing Boing about some technology that he apparently saw this weekend at London's Open Tech conference. According to Cory, this new technology from Promise TV takes the form of a home-built PVR with lots of high-capacity hard drives and claims to be able to record every show on every channel being recorded in the UK for an entire month. 'Why program a TiVo to get certain shows for you when you can record every single show on the air, all at once, and then use recommendations, search, a grid, or any other means you care to name to figure out which of those thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.' The company seems somewhat cryptic with a simple website that appears to be collecting your email addresses for an announcement in August. "

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Wow! by Pedrito · 2005-07-26 07:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

So it can record BBC One, Two, Three AND Four. That's pretty impressive.

I have a DirecTV TiVo with 2 tuners. I can't possibly watch everything it records as it is. Not to mention, just about anything worth watching is probably available on the various P2P networks.

If I had the space for every TV show played over a month on all channels, that's not what I'd use that space for. Instead, I'd record everything that might interest me over the next 5 years and I'd probably have some room to spare.