Streaming Quality /Vs 360 Recordings

Unfortunately, broadcast methods of distributing TV are in sharp decline. They are also expensive to maintain. Virgin are currently building a new Full Fibre network alongside their existing traditional fibre hybrid CATV/DOCSIS networks. The intention is to switch these older networks off in the coming years & migrate customers to XGS-PON, which cannot carry the broadcast TV that 360 boxes use. All the current new network build areas only offer the Flex TV products (streaming non recording boxes), & those leaving the traditional networks in future will also move to this.

Bear in mind that both V360 & Flex was designed for cloud recording, & Liberty Global's other European operations (apart from Ireland) has had no hard disks in their boxes for several years now. The only reason we still use hard disks is due to UK/Irish broadcast agreements not allowing cloud recording. This in itself has caused many issues with the modified firmware that has to manage the hard disks remotely from a central server, like for instance not being able to play recordings on your own hard drive if you lose your Broadband connection to the server.