This is outside of my usual wheelhouse in terms of this blog, which thus far has mostly been grumpy rants about programming – but at least my background will help shed a little more light on the subject (at least, hopefully, more than: I plugged it into my TV and it worked). I particularly want to cover the questions I had, and continued to have, even after looking through other reviews and documentation from Vodafone (who seem to follow the modern trend of repeating a few bullet points over and over again on their website).

I’m also not going to go into too much depth about the ‘Streaming’ aspects or apps – like Netflix or Prime, since they’re all basically the same on any device. Hitting the Netflix button on your TV remote is no different to loading the app on Vodafone TV (although with more steps). If you care about streaming services, this might not be the place for you.

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First, let’s get the main detail out of the way: 3-day rewind is just magical. No sooner than I had it plugged in and activated on a Sunday, was I able to rewind live broadcast TV back to Friday night’s programming.

With current technology, let’s assume you’re at the mall grabbing some dinner. You think to yourself: Oh, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is on in 20 minutes – but you also need to grab something from the supermarket. You miss the first half, so have to schedule a recording of the 1am repeat on Sky and watch it the next day – or wait for it to be posted on-demand (in lower quality) the following day.