Trip down memory lane with T-box

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Tatou

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Master Geek

#2619551 10-Dec-2020 16:53

Hanging onto my old T box. Hope it keeps going.

I don't know how my wife will cope when it dies as the recording of her favourite old detective series and looking at them months later is the main use of the TV from Vodafone.

The newer box would be a downgrade.

Netflix etc is supplied via a Xiaomi M Box and 5mhz Wifi and is all we need.

prevaljo

175 posts

Master Geek

#2624896 21-Dec-2020 11:04

Hi Tatou it may not get a chance to die. Voda has just pushed a flyer out advising that the T-Box service is to be retired early next year and a tech will contact me to install my new "free" VTV box in January. Obviously they don't want to continue running a separate platform for TV, despite the fact that it is of superior quality.

Tatou

235 posts

Master Geek

#2624897 21-Dec-2020 11:07

No.....................................................

My wife will be very unhappy with this change.

I will have to work out a way to record to a local hard drive

I am annoyed a business decision to go cloud based and streaming of content meant that something that worked for many customers is no longer available

See this from 2017.

The new Vodafone TV service and box streams from cloud-based servers in the same way as Netflix, Apple TV and other On Demand services do. In addition, Vodafone TV offers cloud-based recording and 3 day TV catch up which has a number of great benefits over recording the more traditional way (using a hard disk). 3 day TV catch up also means you don’t need to press record to watch programmes that have recently aired. The cloud service also allows you to watch your TV service and recordings from a mobile or 2nd set top box.

To deliver a cloud-based recording and catch up service we must obtain permission from the content copyright holders to record their content. TV recorders that use a hard disk (eg the old T-box) don’t need these permissions due to a special exception in international copyright law that allows recording to a personal storage device. Cloud recording isn’t classed as a personal storage device unfortunately.

The vast majority of our customers are more than happy with the extra benefits of the Vodafone TV service and being able to record or catch up on over 88% of programmes. However, if being able to record 100% of broadcast TV programmes is what you require, then Vodafone TV is not for you.

antoniosk

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#2624923 21-Dec-2020 12:08

prevaljo:

Hi Tatou it may not get a chance to die. Voda has just pushed a flyer out advising that the T-Box service is to be retired early next year and a tech will contact me to install my new "free" VTV box in January. Obviously they don't want to continue running a separate platform for TV, despite the fact that it is of superior quality.

Interesting.... I havent got one....

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Antoniosk

Apsattv

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Uber Geek

#2625072 21-Dec-2020 18:31

What are the shows that your wife needs have you ever looked on youtube for them?

You may be surprised

Vodafone tv has a youtube app

Tatou

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Master Geek

#2625083 21-Dec-2020 19:05

Some are probably on Youtube.

It is just the ease of use she likes and what she is used to plus being able to set to record channels that you are not watching.

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