- Maybe the best selling point for YouTube TV is its DVR.
They advertise unlimited storage
and you get to keep your recordings for up to nine months.
This just blows everybody else out of the water.
At least on paper, because every time I mention this
you guys are in the comments below,
legitimately bringing up how it doesn't quite work that way.
So today we're talking about YouTube TVs DVR specifically
and to understand it we're gonna use a language
even I can understand.
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Anyway, let's talk cloud DVR.
Cloud DVR is something that every live TV streaming service
is offering and they all operate
in roughly the same way except for YouTube TV.
Typically, if you got something like Sling or Hulu
or DirecTV Now every time you hit that record button
on your mobile device or your streaming box.
Every time you hit that record button
a show represented by this little Lego block,
a show is recorded and put in a far away server
on some storage space so that you can access it later.
Well that's great, but storage space is expensive
and so that's why Sling charges you five bucks a month
or if you want upgraded storage on Hulu,
it's ten bucks a month that's why they charge this much.
How does YouTube TV offer you
unlimited storage with nine months
of you know where you can access that for nine months
how do they do that without
charging you into anything extra?
Well that's what we're gonna talk about using these Legos.
So yeah let's build some Legos.
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All right now we've got our two well types of storage here.
Well we have a storage for your personal DVR,
you hit the record button and that show goes into here.
So every time you record
an episode of what are the kids watch nowadays?
Mash oops!
Hogan's Heroes, Friends, Three's Company.
It's filling this server up every time you hit
that record button it's gonna
run out of room pretty quickly
and so what Google says, or what YouTube TV says,
is all right look we have this whole other server over here
and this is full of on-demand content.
Someone comes to them and says all right we have a show
for you to show on demand they're gonna keep
that in here and anybody can access this.
So this is personal, this is shared
and so what they do is they need to keep
some space on here so that people can
keep recording that unlimited DVR content.
So let's say you recorded the entirety of Con Air.
Congratulations, you're watching Con Air,
well hang on a second 'cause Con Air is available,
I actually don't know if this is true,
but let's say it's available to watch on demand.
They're gonna take that recording
and just say you know what,
when you wanna playback Con Air,
we're gonna just pull it from here
so that we save this storage space over here.
I get it it's annoying with other services
like Hulu or Sling or DirecTV Now,
they're cloud DVRs that's why they limit them
to 50 hours or 200 hours or whatever it is
and make you pay a premium for this space
and YouTube TV is just saying okay we can do
it a little bit differently
and this is how they're choosing to do it.
It may be so annoying to you
that you say no I'm sticking with the other services
where I get my own space in those storage servers.
That's up to you it's a matter of taste
but whatever that taste is hit us up in the comments below
and try to make the case for what you
think is the better system.
This is ultimately just an explanation
of why YouTube TV does what it does
and how it works whether that's good for you well,
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