[mythtv-users] Program hoarding (was Best Hardware)

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On 9 May 2006 at 20:17, Brian Wood wrote:

> On May 9, 2006, at 8:10 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> 
> > I can't answer for anyone else but it seems to me from reading a  
> > lot of
> > threads around here that there are two types of people - those who  
> > watch
> > and discard and those who hoard. And the majority of myth users are in
> > the latter camp!
> 
> 
> I certainly am. I have a TB of storage and have only about 200GB free  
> at the moment, and that is all SD content !!
> 
> Just the packrat instinct in me I guess, or perhaps I remember when I  
> got home after more than 6 months in a hospital and couldn't do much  
> more than read and watch TV for a while, sure wish I had had that  
> content then.

Back toward the tail-end of the 0.18 days my system stopped recording 
because it couldn't update the scheduling database for some reason. I 
didn't bother to fix it until 0.19 was released more than 2 months 
later because I already had more recordings than I could watch. I 
happily watched and deleted programs that I had previously recorded 
until I felt it was time to upgrade to 0.19.

Sure, I missed recording a few shows during those 2 1/2 months, but 
so what? Most have been aired again since, there's always something 
else, and frankly I find very little worth keeping after I've watched 
it.