Cognitive digital video recorder

A computer program product for a digital video recorder, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• receiving a request to record or store a digital video content;
• receiving, by the computer, at least one content tag corresponding to the digital video content;
• determining if a capacity is available to accommodate the digital video content;
• in response to determining that the capacity is not available to accommodate the request, receiving a user profile data;
• accessing a relationship map and the at least one content tag, wherein the relationship map indicates relatedness between each of a plurality of instances of digital content and other instances of the plurality of digital content based on a frequency of content tags in common between respective instances of digital content;
• preforming a cognitive analysis of the user profile data utilizing the accessed relationship map and the at least one content tag;
• ranking a plurality of digital video content based on the cognitive analysis results;
• deleting an initial at least one of the plurality of digital video content to create the capacity to accommodate the digital video content;
• and
• storing the requested digital video content.

A computer system for a digital video recorder, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on one or more of the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
• receiving a request to record or store a digital video content;
• receiving, by the computer, at least one content tag corresponding to the digital video content;
• determining if a capacity is available to accommodate the digital video content;
• in response to determining that the capacity is not available to accommodate the request, receiving a user profile data;
• accessing a relationship map and the at least one content tag, wherein the relationship map indicates relatedness between each of a plurality of instances of digital content and other instances of the plurality of digital content based on a frequency of content tags in common between respective instances of digital content;
• preforming a cognitive analysis of the user profile data utilizing the accessed relationship map and the at least one content tag;
• ranking a plurality of digital video content based on the cognitive analysis results;
• deleting an initial at least one of the plurality of digital video content to create the capacity to accommodate the digital video content;
• and
• storing the requested digital video content.