It would be advantageous, therefore, to have means and methods of administering the risk that an estimate of compression level and therefore an estimate of storage space requirement will be too small. In addition, it is useful to note that estimates of storage space required for recording a particular show are made in dependence upon an estimated compression level. It would be advantageous if there were ways to configure or control storage space to facilitate use by multiple users, allowing for multiple users to share the storage resources collision-free, with little risk of erasing or overwriting someone else's recorded shows. One user may use a disproportional share of the storage space available for recording video content, leaving little or none for other users of the recorder. In a setting with more than one user, the recording time available on typical PVRs is not configured or controlled by user allocation, which causes problems. The TIVO® system is an example of such a PVR, and today the TIVO® system is marketed by the number of hours of video content it can record, typically 20, 30, or 50 hours. PVRs are relatively expensive and therefore are typically shared by more than one user. In the current art of the personal video recorder (“PVR”), the storage space available upon which to record television shows or other video content (“shows”) is a limited resource. The field of the disclosure is data processing, or, more specifically, methods, systems, and products for automated personal video recording. 10/180,361 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0358), titled “Personal Video Recording With Machine Learning For Messaging” patent applications having the same inventors, the same assignee, and the same filing date, also hereby incorporated by reference: The present application is related to the following co-pending U.S. 10/180,591 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0357), titled “Personal Video Recording With Apportioned Loans of Storage Space” 10/180,164 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0347), titled “Personal Video Recording With Storage Space Requirement Checking” 10/180,145 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0325), titled “Personal Video Recording with Pools and Groups”
10/180,114 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0111), titled “Personal Video Recording With Further Compression Of Recorded Shows”
10/180,362 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0110), titled “Personal Video Recording with Recovery of Displayed Storage Space” 10/180,143 (Attorney Docket Number AUS9-2002-0109), titled “Personal Video Recording With Storage Space Loans” patent applications having the same inventors and assignee, which are hereby incorporated by reference: 25, 2002, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety. 29, 2007, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. This application is a Continuation of and claims the priority benefit of U.S.
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