Time-shifted channels

I use them a fair bit since I only have a single satellite feed I often have to record things from +1 when there's a clash.
I don't have 100% faith that every programme I want to see with be available on a catch up service later, and sometimes I'll want to keep them longer than they are available for.

This time of year +1s become very useful. Two tuners on my PVR and Wednesday night is full of stuff I want to record - Apprentice, Taskmaster, Don't Tell the Bride, Grand Designs. Can't even record it all with the plus ones

Which is why I'm quite a fan of ITV Hub on Sky - no adverts. Unique I believe compared to the Hub on other platforms. Although it does go to serve how much of a programme slot adverts take these days, best part of 12/13 minutes per hour.

For me it's the far of having two or more separate players. I'd much rather have everything I watch on a single PVR hard drive than have to remember what it is I missed last night and hunt it out on an on demand service which might not work or still be on there anyway.

Though I often use the directory of my PVR as a list of things I need to watch and then if I'm travelling or bored at work I'll watch them on iplayer etc instead

Yep - and with Sky you get that iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4 and Sky content all sits in the same planner as your off-air recordings, and search is global if you want to find stuff too. It's not perfect - but it's better than any other TV platform I've seen so far, though Sky doesn't offer 'watch from start' on BBC shows AFAIK (or any live shows) unlike the new Freeview option.

+2 channels are mainly in different countries. I'm not just talking about the UK.

Not for BBC shows but that's presumably because nothing on Sky streams, it all downloads to the box and plays from there.

Common in Australia where they work due to the time difference. I think the US has +3 channels, but not branded as such - basically an East and a West version of the same channel.

On RTÉ One+1's satellite feed, even Aertel teletext is one hour behind!

Pretty sure Virgin does the same thing as Sky, though I'm not exactly sure how it works. Sometimes I've seen iPlayer or All4 stuff in My Shows if I've been watching something then missed it and not recorded it (Eastenders for example), other times not.

Global search too - TV, Catch up and Netflix.

I remember this being discussed on 'another forum' round about 2007 - at that point, AFAIK, +1 channels were not required to be licensed, as they were just relaying the feed of their parent channels. I mention this because on said forum, there was a thread (that may have been part of another thread) which discussed new Ofcom licenses, and there was much surprise when a spate of +1 licenses began to appear.