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Four tuner frenzy: The all-you-can-EEat TV Freeview PVR

John Brown (no body) Silver badge

"The EE box manages 24 hours, across a selection of channels. If you were to do it for every channel, on every mux, for even 7 days, you'd need a lot more storage. To get up to the 30 days now offered by iPlayer, you'd need even more, and the cost of the boxes would likely go up a fair bit."

Sounds like an ideal situation for a P2P network of PVRs. Each box records a selection and shares it out over a P2P network. It won't take all that many subscribers to store all channels for 30 days and with enough subscribers, each users upload bandwidth should be low enough to be manageble. Preference for peers to connect to could be given to those on the same exchange.

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