Cable Forum - TiVo General TiVo Discussion Part 3

Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder! I think they look great. In fact, I've always thought they look great, and still do, even though as I've got to know them over time my love for what's inside has diminished (pretty much with each new Virgin upgrade)!

DOT COTTON

08-09-2014 22:24

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Does anyone know why channel numbers are not on the box like all other virgin boxes even going back to cabletel days.

BenMcr

09-09-2014 01:18

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Originally Posted by DOT COTTON (Post 35727537)

Does anyone know why channel numbers are not on the box like all other virgin boxes even going back to cabletel days.

The older non-recordable boxes could only tune to one TV channel so displaying the channel number worked. Even with the V+ HD boxes, there is only one live TV tuner and two separate recording tuners, so the number on the front showed what the Live TV tuner was set to show.

TiVo has three tuners all of which can record or show Live TV, so what you're actually watching can be on any of the three tuners - therefore you can't show three different channel numbers at the same time.

joglynne

09-09-2014 12:27

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35727583)

I too wondered about the missing channel number. Thanks for the explanation Ben. :)

Joedm45

09-09-2014 13:46

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Has anyone heard about the TiVo Mega? It looks absolutely nuts!

http://www.t3.com/news/tivo-launches...owerhouse#null

Shame on anyone who asks when it's coming to VM, you really will have more money than sense :p:

OLD BOY

09-09-2014 14:19

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Originally Posted by Joedm45 (Post 35727663)

Sounds good, but it's impractical. What happens when it dies, which is all too often on the existing boxes?

The answer surely lies in the cloud, and so this machine is already out of date.

MalteseFalcon

09-09-2014 14:39

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Chuffing hell. Even if I had the money and lived in America I wouldn't buy it. Looks too big and probably makes a lot of noise.

OLD BOY

09-09-2014 14:41

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35727679)

Chuffing hell. Even if I had the money and lived in America I wouldn't buy it. Looks too big and probably makes a lot of noise.

Yes, it's not a pretty sight, is it? Not one of TIVO's best efforts!

BenMcr

09-09-2014 14:50

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35727676)

Sounds good, but it's impractical. What happens when it dies, which is all too often on the existing boxes?

The answer surely lies in the cloud, and so this machine is already out of date.

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35727679)

Chuffing hell. Even if I had the money and lived in America I wouldn't buy it. Looks too big and probably makes a lot of noise.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35727681)

Yes, it's not a pretty sight, is it? Not one of TIVO's best efforts!

TiVo are doing the 'proper' cloud too http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/07/t...dvr-prototype/

However I think the whole 'in home' mega install is a lot more popular in the US than it is over here - there are quite a few products available over there where you can load up your DVD / Blu-Ray collections onto a server http://www.kaleidescape.com/products/

I'm assuming this is who TiVo are aiming it at - and it would likely sit within a server room, rather than being on show.

muppetman11

09-09-2014 15:31

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35727676)

Sounds good, but it's impractical. What happens when it dies, which is all too often on the existing boxes?

The answer surely lies in the cloud and so this machine is already out of date.

Until the rights holders impose their draconian restrictions on cloud storage that is.

Mad Max

09-09-2014 15:55

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Originally Posted by Joedm45 (Post 35727663)

Jesus H, now that's one ugly mod edit.....:Yikes: You'd need to be tied to your chair 24/7 to even get close to watching everything it can hold, now that really is sad.

Stephen

09-09-2014 16:43

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I think it's more so you never have to delete anything again or even risk loosing recordings. and it's a rack mount so you wouldn't ever need to see the actual thing.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35727676)

Sounds good, but it's impractical. What happens when it dies, which is all too often on the existing boxes?

The answer surely lies in the cloud, and so this machine is already out of date.

It's not a single HDD it's a multi drive setup configured in RAID 5 with the drives being hot swapable.

So chances of it ever dying is very slim.

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35727679)

Chuffing hell. Even if I had the money and lived in America I wouldn't buy it. Looks too big and probably makes a lot of noise.

It's not meant to look pretty. It's a mass storage device to be rack mounted meaning it will be hidden away so you'd never see or hear it.

Gavin-D

12-09-2014 10:44

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2014) Vol. 3

Improved start up time is good news