I have been in the same position as you many times, and I swear, Sky Sports is so inconsistent.

Thank you for this post. You literally took the words out of my mouth months ago.

Plus if you back up all your data like you should do on another hard drive and off site then there is not issue with you loosing all your data. Streaming is the way forward.

Apps like Spotify and youtube included. Virgin doesn’t make the hardware they buy it and install their software onto it. The old DVR’s used to be made by samsung and you could buy them off the internet for about £70 without the virgin firmware.

My issue with digital only is three fold

1) Sense of Ownership – I buy movies not just because I love to watch them, I like to collect them and showcase them. They tell people and myself alot about me. The same could be said for books on a shelf. Next time you walk into someones home and they have a collection of books on their shelfs look at them and they will tell you alot about that person. Movies and Music are the same. If you remove that then I think you remove a part of your identity and no matter how hard you try to replicate that in a digital environment its just not the same. In order to get that experience you would have to actually be using that persons private digital space to view the movies, rather than a passing glance in their home.

2) Value – I value the content of my movies more with a hard copy. Something about the tactile nature of being able to pick up something you have purchased and knowing that it is yours forever. I don’t think you get that with a digital copy. Its intangible and in my opinion just doesnt exude the same value. Its cheapened because you cant really see that it actually exists in our reality. Its just floating about in a digital world waiting for you to pull it out and assign it value by watching it and that makes it feel somewhat disposable. If you were to watch it on TV or at the cinema, whilst you may not own a copy you own the value of it because you have gone out of your way to watch it at a set time, in a set location and the value is your time and effort for that Program / Film.

3) Security and Retaining the content – Going back to the disposable nature I discussed above, an extension to this is the idea that I could turn on my machine one morning and the film has gone, either deleted, corrupted or worse, my machine has died and the content is lost and nothing to show for my purchase and ownership of that item. I know a DVD could be damaged but its tangible, and something of the item still exists. Now with the advent of Blu-Ray and studios ever increasing need to add value to their items they have done the amazing thing of bring out Triple Play Blu-Rays (Blu-Ray, DVD and Digital Copy) of films etc. This is great as I can have my cake and eat it, which you dont get with just a digital copy. Its tangible, I can hold it and show it, it has a feeling of value and I can watch it in a digital domain and keep the hard copies safe on my shelf so that digital version dies I have not lost that item.

Today too many people are rushing to get everything digitised and online. As we do that we loose something of ourselves, something of the craft and of the tactile enjoyment we get from things in life. Digital is great but I think it should not be the be all and end all of everything. One day digitisation will be the undoing of us and we should safeguard our content in a format that we can pick up without the reliance of a computer or other form of transportable AV device.

Im a graphic designer and digital photographer so work in the digital world all of the time, but even I need to take a step back and keep my content and things I enjoy in a real and tactile world, and if I can have Real and Digital content then great, but will never just rely on Digital.

I searched online for HOURS and HOURS to find this. Thought this would help others. It is a terminal command, but it’s very simple and does not delete data. Read below. Entered the one line command. Entered admin password and It was unlocked and ready to use.

http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=90894&page=21

Open Terminal and type in this command.

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/DROBO; sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/DROBO

Replace the name of the Drobo in place of DROBO above.
Add Quotes around it if there is a space in the Drobo name such as below.

sudo chflags nouchg “/Volumes/Drobo 16TB”; sudo chmod 775 “/Volumes/Drobo 16TB”

Here is an explanation of what the two commands that AGENTX gave you actually do:

1)
sudo gives you temporary root privileges.
chflags lets you manipulate file flags. In your case, you have the uchg flag set on the DROBO volume. uchg is the user immutable flag, in other words it is allowed to be set by ordinary users for files and directories that they own, and it signals that this file or directory should not be allowed to be changed.
nouchg tells chflags to unset the uchg flag.
/Volumes/DROBO tells chflags where to unset the uchg flag. In your case, it is the top level of your DROBO drive.

2)
sudo again, it gives you temporary root privileges
chmod is the command to change file modes and ACLs. “File modes” is just a fancy Unix way of saying the permissions on a file or directory.
775 is just a shortened way (the explanation of how to shorten file modes is a little more advanced, so just trust me on this one) that the file or directory’s owner can read, write, and execute, the group owner can also read, write, and execute, and other users (anybody else) can read and execute, but cannot write to it.
/Volumes/DROBO again tells chmod where to change the file mode.

As you can see, the commands are changing permissions and file flags, but do not have any effect on data.