Comments on: A P2P video recorder box http://www.oberle.org/blog/2004/08/02/a-p2p-video-recorder-box/ The Weblog of Vincent Oberle - Thoughts and opinions about technology and business Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:48:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Scott Sanders http://www.oberle.org/blog/2004/08/02/a-p2p-video-recorder-box/#comment-209 Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:57:06 +0000 http://www.oberle.org/blog/2004/08/02/a-p2p-video-recorder-box/#comment-209 With bittorrent one person initially seeds a file, then people grab pieces and share what they have, until the file is seeded by many. With a BT based PVR what would happen if two people recorded the same show? Analog cable (PVR cant do digital cable, yet) reception varies, so who is to say which recorded show is the best seed? Obviously if two people record the same show you cant grab some parts from one person and the rest from the other recording, the resulting file wouldn't match either original. With bittorrent one person initially seeds a file, then people grab pieces and share what they have, until the file is seeded by many. With a BT based PVR what would happen if two people recorded the same show? Analog cable (PVR cant do digital cable, yet) reception varies, so who is to say which recorded show is the best seed? Obviously if two people record the same show you cant grab some parts from one person and the rest from the other recording, the resulting file wouldn’t match either original.

]]> by: snellgrove http://www.oberle.org/blog/2004/08/02/a-p2p-video-recorder-box/#comment-24 Sat, 18 Dec 2004 23:44:11 +0000 http://www.oberle.org/blog/2004/08/02/a-p2p-video-recorder-box/#comment-24 great idea indeed, and every program you watch, is stored.. so it can be shared, (and obviously watched again) what about the issues of storage space though? deleting a program would surely be ok, if everyone else keeps it.. but if it was a rare one, and 2 people owned it and they both deleted it without someone else recording it first, the program vanishes forever. so there'd need to be a server making sure one copy exists! or, 2 actually..seeing as that one copy could vanish via hard-drive failure, which takes us back to the drawing board has having a central server means subscription costs, and something that can be shutdown. so make it easy to expand, and add more storage would be the only answer.. and thats only for PC literate people.. great idea indeed, and every program you watch, is stored.. so it can be shared, (and obviously watched again) what about the issues of storage space though?

deleting a program would surely be ok, if everyone else keeps it.. but if it was a rare one, and 2 people owned it and they both deleted it without someone else recording it first, the program vanishes forever.

so there’d need to be a server making sure one copy exists! or, 2 actually..seeing as that one copy could vanish via hard-drive failure, which takes us back to the drawing board has having a central server means subscription costs, and something that can be shutdown.

so make it easy to expand, and add more storage would be the only answer.. and thats only for PC literate people..

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