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Am I the only one here who is struggling with the 20 hour HD capacity of the V+ box? That's 3 films and a couple of MOTDs before it goes critical. I was fine on SD but I'm really struggling with HD.

As far as I'm concerned I'm upgrading as soon as possible purely to get the 1TB drive. Tivo will be nice, a UI update will be nice, YouTube will be fun initially, but they all pale in to insignificance compared to the 120 hours of HD capacity.

I'm sick of getting nagged to death because my latest MOTD recording has caused Eastenders to fail to record.

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I agree,But £190 for a 1tb drive is daylight robbery.

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well as the v+box uses a Western Digital Caviar 160gb green
don't tell vm but swop it for

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ZCXK0...SIN=B002ZCXK0I
and then
1) PRESS the HOME Button.
2) PRESS and HOLD PLAY button for about 5 secs. E-00 will appear in the display on front of V+box.
3) PRESS T.v Drive or V+ button. E-01 will appear.
4) PRESS CH - button 4 times. as you do Hdd1 - Hdd2 -Hdd3 - Hdd4 will appear.
Reformating your harddrive will start rFT will appear in the window.
the process with pressing the buttons needs to be done in quick time.
The process should take 5 -8 mins depending on how much information is stored on the harddrive.

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MOTD is not in HD so you are only recording upscaled anyway. Space saving easy step 1 ;)

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But upscalled at source is far better then upscalling SD via your STB so to save space you have to sacrifice quality.

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cheers matey

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It's worth pointing out that doing this will break the VM T&C's of your service.

---------- Post added at 17:53 ---------- Previous post was at 17:52 ----------

If it was just a 1TB, then yes. ;)

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And risk a hefty charge, together with possible termination of service if anything goes wrong with the service, and the engineer discovers that you have opened the box and broken one (or more) of the anti tamper checks they probably have in the box.

In short, I don't think it's worth the hassle (or the cost).

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The very first time you called in with a fault that would be noticed and you would have your services terminated and yourself blacklisted.

Also what you advocate will probably not work with the Virginmedia software and viewing card.

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if you have a fault yes i agree.
yes it does work it just a hard drive there is no security key on it at all.

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Bearing in mind my own experience of VM, and the fact that this website even exists, I'd say When is more accurate than If.

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I know what you mean,But if i went and bought a £1000 tv,I would want to have channels to watch.The way its going with vm at min great tech but losing channels and not getting the new ones,The price is putting me off tivo but the concern over channels is also a worry.I am very reluctent to pay the overpriced charge and now its looking like sky are calling the shots on vm getting or not getting channels to tie myself to another 12months contract is becoming a big risk.

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The hard drive you purchase may not have a security key on it but the one in the Virginmedia TiVo will have and it will also have all the software on it that will run the box and therefore if you remove it the box will not work and nor will you be able to transfer that information onto the new drive, why do you think the is a Smartcard in the box.

So a probable expensive mistake and a rather stupid thing to actually advocate doing to equipment they do not own.

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The probable expensive mistake at the minute i think will be tivo,But i agree that its a big risk opening yer v+ box

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this may be so but i was not talking about the tivo .
i was referring to the v+box.