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Old Dec 9, 2014 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by JMN57
I don't think that you will be saving any GB's with PlayLater/PlayOn. Basically, the signal is being delivered to your PC as a digital stream via your internet connection and it is being captured to a file for later viewing. It is not recording your live TV signal. For that, you need a Tivo or DVR and one that allows you to use the file. For example, my Time Warner cable enforces a lot of copyrights so Tivo recordings can't be played except by my Tivo while Comcast at another home does not so I can take recordings on the road from there.
The PlayLater portion of the package basically IS TiVo for streaming media... it allows you to record content from NetFlix, Amazon, Hulu, etc. This should allow me to cut internet usage by recording the movies/shows the kids watch for local playback instead of streaming the same ones OVER AND OVER AGAIN, using bandwidth each time.
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