Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35983695)

My eyes are on the expiry of the Sky/VM deal this summer. However, we've not heard anything about this yet, other than Sky's statement that Sky Atlantic will be on all major TV platforms in 2019.

The Horizon UI will replace what we have at the moment on the V6, but no date has been announced. I'm not expecting anything imminently, to be honest.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35983712)

I don't suppose there is any chance of virgin allowing the recording of red button programs in the near future?

Sky have had this feature for several years, via a subsidiary selection menu which appears when you try to record a program that has red button options.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35983712)

I don't suppose there is any chance of virgin allowing the recording of red button programs in the near future?

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 35983722)

BBC red button services had EPG slots howvever Sky/BT do not.

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35983721)

It would be difficult for some of them as I believe they're IP streams not broadcast DVB.

Originally Posted by jfman (Post 35983722)

BBC red button services had EPG slots howvever Sky/BT do not.

Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 35983732)

Red Button stream 1 is in ALL EPGs - VM, Sky and BT

Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 35983736)

If you mean the extra sports streams which TiVo can get - then the BT box does too. Sky does not.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35983712)

I don't suppose there is any chance of virgin allowing the recording of red button programs in the near future?

Sky have had this feature for several years, via a subsidiary selection menu which appears when you try to record a program that has red button options.

Originally Posted by nodrogd (Post 35983739)

Sky own the firmware on their boxes, so can change it as they see fit. I assume if the same functionality were to be added to Virgin boxes, Virgin would want Sky to pay for the upgrade to the TiVO & V6 firmware, the same as they would to upgrade an app.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35983712)

I don't suppose there is any chance of virgin allowing the recording of red button programs in the near future?

Sky have had this feature for several years, via a subsidiary selection menu which appears when you try to record a program that has red button options.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35983738)

Example

Championship football midweek a - 1 main game per day, all other games are on red button. These games are recordable on Sky (via a secondary menu) but as far as I am aware not on Virgin.