Cable Forum - General Coming Soon to Virgin Media TV (2016) Vol 2

Does the comment below mean If both are connected by wifi then you can record 12 shows are once, without having to say what box and does it show 2tb on either box

" Virgin Media has cleverly designed the new boxes to connect to each other and increase the storage. For example, if you have two Virgin TV V6 boxes, your storage capacity increases to 2TB (1TB per box) and you can record up to 12 shows at once. You can then play them back on either box without knowing, nor caring where the programme is stored"

There is a TiVo V6 thread. you would be best asking in there.

http://cableforum.co.uk/board/showth...02913&page=119

vincerooney

02-12-2016 12:16

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Originally Posted by jj20x (Post 35873058)

(1) You asked about the Total Channels and gave your own suggestion as to why it had changed.

(2) I confirmed what you had said regarding BBC Olympics channels and had the NIT listing analysed by indexing the NIT entries, extracting the TSID, SID, Service Name fields. Sorting the SID field into numerical order and comparing to a similar extract from the previous scan. There are 68 networks in the scan and the BBC Olympics channels and the Hidden 23 placeholder had been removed from all 68 networks.

(3) Having confirmed what had actually happened for you, it is somewhat impolite for you to reply that the information is wrong and you have better information. Sorry but your information was wrong, feel free to report what your sources tell you but I'm quite sure that your sources didn't analyse the 61356 rows of data in the NIT to get that incorrect information.

(4) Feel free to draw your own conclusions if you prefer fantasy and speculation to the facts.

(5) So, the Total Channels count has changed again, better get your source to fill you in on why. ;)

To be fair, if you rely on the SDT, you will always be dealing with inaccurate information. Many services being listed which are only available in other regions and some services which have actually been removed from the NIT but are left behind in the SDT.

Tad rude that chap

We are a lovely bunch here so let's all play nice. Media boy is a legend too.

In other news can I have Fox News please

denphone

02-12-2016 12:31

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Sorry Vince but l don't think Fox News will be forthcoming this year now.

jj20x

02-12-2016 14:10

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Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35873256)

Tad rude that chap

We are a lovely bunch here so let's all play nice. Media boy is a legend too.

Not actually rude at all. MB asked a question, got an accurate, well researched answer. He then dismissed the answer as incorrect, preferring to misinterpret the information he had received from someone who had scanned cable frequencies into a tv set. As I stated, he was asking a question about the NIT and then made up an incorrect solution based, not on the NIT but on the SDT.

The problem with this, and the reason for the tone of my reply was that the person who had spent time scanning and analysing the data saw MB's dismissal of their findings. Hardly encouraging for someone who has no interest in this forum, suffice to say they won't be helping out in future. Unfortunate, as the whole reason I asked for their help in the first instance was to help counter the inaccurate "TV scan" based information provided by MB with accurate information based on analysis of the NIT.

I've now been told the identity of the extra service added to the "Total Channels" count, again, it wasn't what MB suggested. Unfortunately, I've now been asked not to post the details on this forum.

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In other news can I have Fox News please

Again, if and when this service is added to the regional networks, I won't be given clearance to post that information here. Unfortunate but it is what it is.. so, back to inaccurate speculation. :D

Ultimate.Conj

02-12-2016 14:57

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Who has time to scan through 61356 rows of anything? what the hell is a NIT...thought they lived on kids heads :-)

RichardCoulter

02-12-2016 15:02

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35873318)

Who has time to scan through 61356 rows of anything? what the hell is a NIT...thought they lived on kids heads :-)

Network Information Table.

Ultimate.Conj

02-12-2016 15:07

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35873321)

Network Information Table.

hahaha thanks, Rich :D

jj20x

02-12-2016 17:53

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35873318)

Who has time to scan through 61356 rows of anything?

Nobody, that was the point. We developed a database with a front end to load VM's convoluted and heavily fragmented NIT.

Frazz

03-12-2016 11:44

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Gave virgin media a call and the new TiVo will be available for customers to order from the 6th December,

vincerooney

03-12-2016 13:22

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35873509)

Gave virgin media a call and the new TiVo will be available for customers to order from the 6th December,

interesting ! what is the price for this?

Im assuming the cliche 50 quid installation price or something. I'm tempted to try my luck.

denphone

03-12-2016 13:42

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Originally Posted by vincerooney (Post 35873517)

interesting ! what is the price for this?

Im assuming the cliche 50 quid installation price or something. I'm tempted to try my luck.

Its is £50 plus a installation and activation fee for a V6 box if you have either the Big House package or one of the other big packages Vince and £100 plus the other charges if you don't have those packages l think.

Ddonald2016

03-12-2016 13:56

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Originally Posted by Frazz (Post 35873509)

Gave virgin media a call and the new TiVo will be available for customers to order from the 6th December,

So do we phone retentions on Tuesday 6th at 8am to order the V6

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35873519)

They announced on facebook there is a £14.99 activation fee per box

Dave42

03-12-2016 13:56