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Old 12-08-2024, 11:30   #613
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Re: Virgin TV (2024)
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Originally Posted by epsilon View Post
What really annoys me is that Virgin adopted the Horizon Box with a few workarounds to make a box designed for a completely different market work in the UK. What hope is there of bringing some of the, much loved, features of the V6 to the TV360 if Virgin don't even bother to adapt the boxes to local storage. We don't have cloud recording in the UK, it would have been preferable to, at least, change the Horizon software to deal with that reality. Not to come up with a workaround to fool the boxes that the local recordings are actually in the cloud. It would mean storing a little more information on the box harddrive but, at least, recordings would be available when broadband isn't.
One size doesn't fit all. The UK has been given all of the disadvantages of cloud recording but without the advantages.
But that isn’t the way things are going, epsilon. TV boxes in the future will not have a hard drive. The workaround you suggest would only be an interim solution for that reason.

Yes, it’s a shame we won’t be able to record in the future because it means your access to the programmes you have bookmarked are time limited. However, the future world will look a lot different in all sorts of ways in just about everything we do, and the pace of change will only increase.
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