frankgibb wrote:
LOSE ALL YOUR RECORDINGS..... Surely it can’t be that difficult to keep them. Even if the format changes, convert them one by one.
Easy to say, but potentially a can of worms. Firstly you need a commercially-available converter between the two file formats that is proven & supported. Do you deploy it centrally, in which case you need the boxes to upload and then download.. or do you deploy an app to the boxes themselves, but how do you counter the reformat process?
The Horizon-software which drives TV360, is fundamentally different to TiVo-software. Remember as well, that VM's licencing for recording boxes is based around timeshift recording for more convenient viewing - not long-term archiving of recordings.
The logic therefore follows that most programmes broadcast in the past 30 or so days is likely to be available OnDemand somewhere.