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OLD BOY

11-11-2020 17:22

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

Thanks, Robby, that was also important to me!

Richardr

11-11-2020 18:10

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

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Originally Posted by fox35 (Post 36057364)

Virgin Media IS Liberty Global. LG bought the Virgin Media company and brand back in 2013. They opted to continue to use the VM brand only in their UK market under licence from Bransons larger Virgin Group. All domestic PVRs including VMs 360/Horizon, Sky+/Q, Freeview recorders etc still use elements of TiVo/Rovi patented tech in their operating system.

That's the position today. At some point next year Liberty Global will only own half of the company in the UK - O2 owning the other half.

Mythica

16-11-2020 22:58

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

So it's official (from VM staff on the VM Community forums) that 360 software is being trialled on V6 hardware.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...4485805/page/2

OLD BOY

16-11-2020 23:26

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 36058503)

So it's official (from VM staff on the VM Community forums) that 360 software is being trialled on V6 hardware.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...4485805/page/2

Good find, Mythica, thank you!

heavyside

17-11-2020 07:31

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 36058503)

So it's official (from VM staff on the VM Community forums) that 360 software is being trialled on V6 hardware.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...4485805/page/2

That is very good news IMO.

RobboEdin

17-11-2020 09:10

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 36058503)

So it's official (from VM staff on the VM Community forums) that 360 software is being trialled on V6 hardware.

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...4485805/page/2

... and, of course, the most important information in that post is that you can have multiple Horizon boxes with storage.

Mythica

17-11-2020 10:28

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Originally Posted by RobboEdin (Post 36058513)

... and, of course, the most important information in that post is that you can have multiple Horizon boxes with storage.

I don't see that information anywhere? You can have multiple V6 boxes with Horizon software. Unless that's what you mean?.

1andrew1

17-11-2020 10:40

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 36058520)

I don't see that information anywhere? You can have multiple V6 boxes with Horizon software. Unless that's what you mean?.

From the VM Forum:

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I don’t think I’m giving anything away now as it’s been announced but, pending successful trials, from next year any existing customers with 2 x V6 boxes will be able to upgrade them to 360 over the air and keep the entire 2TB storage across both boxes.

It will just be a software update pushed over the network. So customers with two V6s can retain them both and their combined 2Tb storage; they won't be asked to send back one of their V6s.

Mythica

17-11-2020 11:38

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36058521)

From the VM Forum:

It will just be a software update pushed over the network. So customers with two V6s can retain them both and their combined 2Tb storage; they won't be asked to send back one of their V6s.

Yeah that's what I was linking to, the official source. It might be a bit pedantic, but it doesn't say multiple Horizon boxes.

RobboEdin

17-11-2020 13:06

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Originally Posted by Mythica (Post 36058528)

Yeah that's what I was linking to, the official source. It might be a bit pedantic, but it doesn't say multiple Horizon boxes.

I referred to a V6 with Horizon software as a Horizon box.
I’ve seen no proof that there is other than one hardware platform - the V6 box, which can run either TiVo or Horizon software.

Mythica

17-11-2020 13:26

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

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Originally Posted by RobboEdin (Post 36058551)

I referred to a V6 with Horizon software as a Horizon box.
I’ve seen no proof that there is other than one hardware platform - the V6 box, which can run either TiVo or Horizon software.

The 360 box? Otherwise why are they trialling Horizon software on the V6 box, if that's all the 360 box is.

So is the 360 box exactly the same as the V6 box but different software? If that's the case, why was the people on Ultimate oomph bundle offered a downgrade when the offer first came about.

spiderplant

17-11-2020 13:47

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Originally Posted by RobboEdin (Post 36058551)

I’ve seen no proof that there is other than one hardware platform - the V6 box, which can run either TiVo or Horizon software.

There are 3 boxes:
Arris boxes: Can run either TiVo or Horizon software
Humax boxes (with or without a harddrive): Can only run Horizon software

cheekyangus

17-11-2020 14:53

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36058555)

There are 3 boxes:
Arris boxes: Can run either TiVo or Horizon software
Humax boxes (with or without a harddrive): Can only run Horizon software

Thanks for that. Much appreciated spiderplant.

RobboEdin

17-11-2020 15:24

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

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Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 36058555)

There are 3 boxes:
Arris boxes: Can run either TiVo or Horizon software
Humax boxes (with or without a harddrive): Can only run Horizon software

Thanks. Very clear.

ozsat

21-11-2020 17:51

Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

Something I've just noticed is a lot of the air dates are wrong on Horizon.

Only Fools and Horses for the episode on now (Ser 6 Ep 1) says 8th Jan 1989 on TiVo - which is correct.

Horizon says the same episode is actually from 2002.

About half of the episodes of just this series are way out. I'm sure there are many more.

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