A worry I had about leaving cable was losing the ability to record and catch up on things I missed, since the old box had a DVR we used more than I realised. It turned out to be a non-issue, and in some ways an upgrade. Modern streaming setups handle catch-up and on-demand viewing far more gracefully than an old cable DVR ever did, with its limited storage and clunky menus. When I set up an iptv premium service for the live channels, the catch-up and on-demand options that came with the wider streaming ecosystem more than replaced what the DVR had done. Instead of managing recordings and running out of space, most of what we wanted was simply available to watch whenever we chose. I ran the new setup alongside the old package for two weeks to be sure nothing important was lost in the transition, and nothing was. The lesson for anyone attached to their DVR is that the recording habit is often a workaround for the limitations of cable rather than a feature worth preserving. Streaming tends to make the underlying need, watching what you want when you want, easier rather than harder.