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{{Quotation|A unit of content, in a [[Broadcasting|broadcast stream]], can be referred to by its globally unique CRID in the same way that a [[webpage]] can be referred to by its globally unique URL on the web.}}<!--source? or is it not a quotation?-->

The concept of CRID permits to referencereferencing contents unambiguously, regardless of their ___location, i.e., without knowing specific broadcast information (time, date and channel) or how to obtain them through a network, for instance, by means of a streaming service or by downloading a file from an Internet server.

The receiver must be capable of resolving these unambiguous references, i.e., translate them into specific data that will allow it to obtain the ___location of that content in order to acquire it. This makes it possible for recording processes to take place without knowing that information, and even without knowing beforehand the duration of the content to be recorded: a complete series by a simple click, a program that has not been scheduled yet, a set of programs grouped by a specific criterion…