1. A method for execution by one or more computing devices of a centralized digital video storage (DVS) system regarding recording of broadcast multi-media content that is to be broadcast at a particular broadcast time, the method comprises: determining a number of subscriber devices that have selected to record the multi-media content prior to the particular broadcast time, wherein the number of subscriber devices includes zero or more subscriber devices; and at the particular broadcast time: receiving the multi-media content as it is being broadcast; when the number of subscriber devices is less than a first value: dispersed storage error encoding data segments of the multi-media content using first level encoding parameters to produce sets of first level encoded data slices, wherein one of the data segments is encoded to generate one set of the sets of first level encoded data slices; and storing the sets of first level encoded data slices in a first set of storage units of the centralized DVS system; and when the number of subscriber devices is equal to or greater than the first value: dispersed storage error encoding the data segments of the multi-media content using second level encoding parameters to produce sets of second level encoded data slices, wherein one of the data segments is encoded to generate one set of the sets of second level encoded data slices, wherein the second level encoding parameters provides a greater combination of decode threshold number of encoded data slices per data segment than the first level encoding parameters; and storing the sets of second level encoded data slices in a second set of storage units of the centralized DVS system.