With the Vodafone, you can simply jump back to the start of any show that aired within the last 3 days (assuming it’s one of the channels + show combinations they have license to do so – a claimed 90% of content).

One trick to get around the issue on a skybox is to leave the channel on one you’re likely to watch to enable timeshifting to rewind to the program you want to watch (assuming you have the luxury of forward-planning) – but that only works for one channel, since you can’t control what the other 3 tuners do in the background.

Now, anyone born young enough to be fond of the Star Wars prequels will simply say, but I can watch anything I want on Netflix – whenever I’m ready, on my 13” MacBook screen. I’m not going to watch what they tell me to watch. Well no. You can’t. The fact that there are approximately 17 billion streaming services on offer today, proves that you can’t – even if you subscribe to every streaming service, there is still some content that is only available on broadcast TV (or linear if you’re a dingus).

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Both the Sky and Free-to-air channels are available on both platforms, however +1 channels don’t make an appearance on the Vodafone side (with 3-day rewind, they’re kind of irrelevant anyway).

Speaking of that 3-day rewind: on paper it’s not something you might ever consider using all that often, but it has a tonne of uses. If two things we want to watch overlap, we’d either record one and watch it immediately after the other show – or wait for the plus one.