After pushing cloud storage, TV provider to auto-delete 61-day-old DVR recordings

Customers originally had 365 days to enjoy the recordings.

Customers originally had 365 days to enjoy the recordings.

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whats the point of a dvr then?
- To watch something around the time it comes out and delete it. These things were NEVER advertised as long term media storage.
  
  They were first advertised with hard drives that didn't auto delete anything
  
  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.
Shit, I still have a physical DVR and even things I set to never delete will get auto deleted on a whim.
That's weird, the 🧲cloud storage🧲 I use never goes away
Ma Bell at it again...
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