Delayed viewing is one of the main reasons why subscribers value interactive television. The ability to pause, return to the beginning of the broadcast or watch a missed release in a few days makes the TV service noticeably more convenient than conventional broadcasting.
For these scenarios in the Smarty platform, MicroPVR is responsible - a server solution for recording TV shows and non-linear TV services. The operator deploys MicroPVR in its network and offers subscribers Catch-Up, Timeshift and a pause of live broadcast – features that keep the subscriber in the service and distinguish the operator from competitors.

MicroPVR is designed and developed taking into account the high load of subscribers on the service of delayed viewing and VOD, especially on the functions of rewinding and pause, and therefore uses disk storage as efficiently as possible due to caching on SSD media, RAM and records in HDD for long-term storage.
Give your subscribers more options with non-linear TV services:
Delayed viewing is a function that the subscriber uses constantly: pause, rewind, inspect the missed. The more familiar these scenarios are, the more difficult it is for the subscriber to go to the operator where they are not.
Catch-Up and a pause in the air make the operator's service closer to online cinemas for convenience - despite the fact that this is a regular television, familiar to the subscriber.
MicroPVR distributes data between SSDs, RAM and HDD: often the requested is on fast media, long-term archive - on capacious. The operator does not overpay, but the storage and withstands the peak load for rewinding and pause.
MicroPVR integrates closely with the Smarty platform, but through the API works with third-party middleware - the operator can connect the delayed viewing service without rebuilding the entire system.
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