On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 01:25:04PM +0100, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
On 19.02.2015 12:55, fnu wrote:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Seiner-Zeit-voraus-Klaus-Schmidingers-Video-Disk-Recorder-VDR-2552972.html
Great!
Thank you Tobias, Mirko Doelle and Peter Siering!
Thanks from me, too!
Great article!
Thanks from me too, using VDR since 2004, and still on the same
hardware. Admittedly, I am not using VDR that much any more. It was very
important for more than 5 years when the kids were younger and wanted to
see their favourite programs, over and over again. :)
Some reader comments in that article seemed to suggest that VDR is
becoming obsolete due to streaming services and RaaS cloud services
(recording-as-a-service). Those readers seem to forget two important
issues: privacy, and availability of service. The one who controls the
data has the power to violate the users’ privacy and to make the service
unavailable. I do not want to be watched when I watch TV, and I do not
want the service to suddenly disappear or become crippled.
A couple of years ago, there was a legal dispute between some cloud TV
provider and the copyright mafia in Finland. The end result was that the
provider was forced out of business, and its competitor (owned by a
telecom almost-monopoly company) made a "deal" that it will insert more
ads when the recordings are streamed. That kind of nonsense cannot
happen when the end users are in control of the data.
Marko
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