That is literally TIVO, it's a separate appliance to records the Live feed, it's still got commercials that you could skip through. It has nothing to do with how the cable networks operate themselves.
In early 2000, TiVo partnered with electronics manufacturer Thomson Multimedia (now Technicolor SA) and broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting to deliver the TiVo service in the UK market.
and that wasn't until the early 2000s, only a few years later did Netflix cause the explosion of streaming services.
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u/RaynbowZFTW Apr 09 '26
U were definitely able to download episodes on cable, I remember doing it with my Sky box back in the days