@wokelly wrote:
What I've noticed is the 'continue watching' facility only works if you have your router on, with wifi beaming. In fact several of the recording and replaying features only work when the router is ON. Funny thing - I keep reading info on how we Brits waste billions of pounds by leaving machinery on standby unnecessarily, and here we have a latest equipment 'updgrade' which only works if a significant implement is humming nonstop in your domestic centre. Unless my system has been installed incorrectly, this is a backwards step in my opinion - a techno friend insists it is due to the media companies' obsessive need to collect information on our personal usage - constantly? But he's crazy...
It'll be correct, but it's down to the way the systems are designed
The TiVo system is old enough to have started in the days of analogue dial-up. So it's designed to work offline with 'callbacks' for updates every now and again. Although newer features require a constant online connection, a TiVo based box will still work offline for most core features.
The Virgin TV 360 was initially designed to be a streaming platform so always expects an online connection. In most other countries where it's launched it doesn't have a hard disk. That's specific to Virgin Media UK and Virgin Media Ireland. So there was no need to design offline features when it is designed to never be offline.
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