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howardmicks 01-03-2011 20:55

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gaz2810i (Post 35184888)
Yeah Congrats mate, good to see people are still being call and hopefully this is the start of a few of us getting the box for free as part of the draw :fingers crossed:

Hope so

TonyHoyle 01-03-2011 20:57

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy C (Post 35184742)
Oh it very well may do, Ben, no idea. I'm sure it's slightly more difficult to gain command line access these days tho. ;)

Damn near impossible I'd say - instead of booting off the hard drive like US Tivos do it boots of flash memory so there's no scope for modifying it (it loads a kernel + a squashfs root and only touches the hard drive for /var and the MFS partition, and possibly /db).

I suspect but haven't proved it that if you put an empty hard drive in there it'll partition and initialise it itself, which is a bonus for upgrades (HD is 30% full already after 2 weeks, so I'm already eyeing up a 2Tb upgrade).

Big-Ted 01-03-2011 21:03

Re: TiVo
 
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Just got off the phone to the CEO office and made my feeling clear about lack of solid info re roll-out and what the current timetable etc is.

Made it clear that what Virgin need to do more than anything is to post a statement laying out what is happening and what will happen ie when this phase is complete and what will happen re next phase if successful or not.

Upshot is that its going to be passed on, hopefully with the TiVo team being asked to make a statement.

I said that the easiest way was to post it on the Virgin Community Forum as it would be reposted everywhere else quickly. I thought it the most likely place they would post.......

This will hopefully happen and give us some definitive information that we can rely on and not conflicting stories and rumor clouding the issue.

:Yes:

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Quote:

Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35184878)
i asked her if i had won one in the draw she wasnt sure but said i was on her list to offer one for free as a valued customer,but she did say it could be that i am a draw winner.Cant believe it keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of yer toes as well for you muppetman11

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no just very lucky i think,About time.Should i push my luck and have a lucky dip on the lottery tomoz


Must add my congratulations. :D

Its nice when good news comes out of the blue like this :handshake:

muppetman11 01-03-2011 21:04

Re: TiVo
 
Virgin have a good product , but communication regarding it has been shambolic.

gaz2810i 01-03-2011 21:18

Re: TiVo
 
Just recieved an e-mail from someone at Virgin asking for my contact details and best time to call about installing TiVO. Fingers Crossed I am one of the lucky ones and get the call rather soon :)

alwaysabear 01-03-2011 21:18

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35184900)
Virgin have a good product , but communication regarding it has been shambolic.

You have hit the nail squarely on the head with that comment.

muppetman11 01-03-2011 21:31

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by gaz2810i (Post 35184908)
Just recieved an e-mail from someone at Virgin asking for my contact details and best time to call about installing TiVO. Fingers Crossed I am one of the lucky ones and get the call rather soon :)

Well done mate hope u get sorted.

pythagoras 01-03-2011 21:56

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy C (Post 35184658)
Just went through to the other room and snapped a couple of quick picks to compare the size of them both (this is a slim PS3, I have an original boxed up so it can stay there) as I have one on top of the other...

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/03/72.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/03/73.jpg

Pretty nice box eh? :)


A.

How did you get three tuners going Andy?

regards

John

howardmicks 01-03-2011 22:15

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Big-Ted (Post 35184895)
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Just got off the phone to the CEO office and made my feeling clear about lack of solid info re roll-out and what the current timetable etc is.

Made it clear that what Virgin need to do more than anything is to post a statement laying out what is happening and what will happen ie when this phase is complete and what will happen re next phase if successful or not.

Upshot is that its going to be passed on, hopefully with the TiVo team being asked to make a statement.

I said that the easiest way was to post it on the Virgin Community Forum as it would be reposted everywhere else quickly. I thought it the most likely place they would post.......

This will hopefully happen and give us some definitive information that we can rely on and not conflicting stories and rumor clouding the issue.

:Yes:

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Must add my congratulations. :D

Its nice when good news comes out of the blue like this :handshake:

Thanks matey,Hope some more of you get some good news shortly

carbon60 01-03-2011 22:52

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by pythagoras (Post 35184929)
How did you get three tuners going Andy?

regards

John

I think the flash from the camera lit them up. The box doesn't appear to be switched on.

PhlangePhace 01-03-2011 23:09

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Andy C (Post 35184730)

:D Oooh, deja vu.

My Oppli had my s1 TiVo in the middle section too..... pride of place, eh?

dodgem22 01-03-2011 23:35

Re: TiVo
 
congratulations Howardmicke really pleased for you hope my phone gets the call like we all do still I couldnt win an argument

mattboothers 02-03-2011 00:10

Re: TiVo
 
Congrats Howardmicke wish I had your luck :( - Ah well looks like I will have to pay double as I need two boxes.

Im on the raffle draw. I bet all the calls have gone out today. And now there is a north west winner it wont be me lol.

howardmicks 02-03-2011 02:19

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by mattboothers (Post 35185008)
Congrats Howardmicke wish I had your luck :( - Ah well looks like I will have to pay double as I need two boxes.

Im on the raffle draw. I bet all the calls have gone out today. And now there is a north west winner it wont be me lol.

Thanks matey,Keep the faith matey.Who knows you may get the the call,Keeping me fingers crossed for you all

Digital Fanatic 02-03-2011 10:26

Re: TiVo
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha (Post 35184703)
If it's going to be added later then fair enough, although it might be sensible to just change the current default stop time to 2mins. I don't think that's going to cause any complaints.

I would imagine there will be more complaints from people who set the series link and then don't go in to change the padding options and end up missing the end of all their shows !

When you set a series link it asks if you want padding, every time :)


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