[Stuart]

While I can see the advantage of this technology for Virgin. After all, the boxes for this will not require a hard drive, so it reduces their costs for both maintenance and installation. For the consumer, I fail to see what advantage it provides over current technology.

Yes, you can watch it on any device, but the current technology is capable of doing that. So far any attempts to do that in this country have been hampered by rights holders, and I do not see that changing unless Liberty are willing to start competing with Sky on content, and fighting to have streaming to other devices included in their agreements with providers.

There is also the advantage that you can build the software into other devices, such as smart TVs, but, again, the technology to do that is already here, and Virgin have not used it.

In the meantime, they can expire programmes (which is something I do not want to see) and there is a lot more that can go wrong with the system.