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Paul 04-07-2026 00:22
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36218861)
It will take about 30% longer to watch programmes.
Huh :confused:
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer.

ozsat 04-07-2026 06:05
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.

Worse than watching 4:3 material stretched out to fill a 16:9 screen.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36218864)
Huh :confused:
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer.

RichardCoulter 04-07-2026 15:21
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36218864)
Huh :confused:
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer.
QuickView allows you to watch recorded material 30% quicker, so without it it will take 30% longer to watch a programme. I don't know how they do it, but it doesn't make people talk like a speeded up cartoon character!

Does anybody know if the VOD services have the option to speed up playback? I believe that the iPlayer might. If this is the case, it can't be a TiVo patented function, so could theoretically be added to the 360.

Paul 04-07-2026 15:21
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 36218865)
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.
LOL, so by 30% "longer" he actually means watch it as normal. :dunce:

RichardCoulter 04-07-2026 15:30
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36218875)
LOL, so by 30% "longer" he actually means watch it as normal. :dunce:
A 30 minute programme takes 30 minutes to watch in normal mode and 21 minutes in QuickView mode.

japitts 04-07-2026 15:38
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by gunner45 (Post 36218832)
Agreed, but there are swings and roundabouts. The TV 360 has been getting the new apps and multi-room with Stream boxes as the V6 goes into managed decline, and I find the voice control of the TV 360 to be quite useful.
V6 has multi-room, and each additional box also has the 1Tb HDD rather than being a slave/streamer-only.

Agreed re new apps, TV360 always has been about online-first & recording-second. V6 got the same Sky Sports multi-screen on the quiet, to be fair.

Dingbat 04-07-2026 16:33
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36218877)
A 30 minute programme takes 30 minutes to watch in normal mode and 21 minutes in QuickView mode.
If you fast forward through the adverts, you can watch a half hour C5 programme in 15 minutes.

gunner45 04-07-2026 17:33
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36218874)
QuickView allows you to watch recorded material 30% quicker, so without it it will take 30% longer to watch a programme. I don't know how they do it, but it doesn't make people talk like a speeded up cartoon character!

Does anybody know if the VOD services have the option to speed up playback? I believe that the iPlayer might. If this is the case, it can't be a TiVo patented function, so could theoretically be added to the 360.
BBC iPlayer is an outlier in providing variable playback with its self‑contained HTML5 app, and we won't see this playback for other apps due to technical issues and/or rights from content owners.

The technical issues include Horizon 4's player, used by all other apps, which does not provide this capability.

The rights issues are about content owners who don't want their streams altered, and even if they did it's a big job to do this for the tiny percentage of those who want it.

nomadking 04-07-2026 18:10
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 36218865)
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.

Worse than watching 4:3 material stretched out to fill a 16:9 screen.
Use subtitles. Lot quicker than 30% quicker. Over 2x speed.

Paul 04-07-2026 19:58
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
or ..... just watch it as intended ... at normal speed.

RichardCoulter 04-07-2026 20:20
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dingbat (Post 36218879)
If you fast forward through the adverts, you can watch a half hour C5 programme in 15 minutes.
I do both, worked out that a one hour programme on channels 3/4/5 takes 32 minutes and any other commercial channel it takes 28 minutes.

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Originally Posted by nomadking (Post 36218885)
Use subtitles. Lot quicker than 30% quicker. Over 2x speed.
Done this before now when running low on disc space :D

RichardCoulter 05-07-2026 05:32
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36217370)
That's TV is being replaced on Freesat (164) with Rewind TV on Thursday 25th June, so maybe it is closing on all platforms.

If so, I wonder if we will see Rewind TV being added to Virgin as a replacement??
There's a rumour that That's TV is leaving Sky 'sometime in July' and the Virgin EPG is saying 'channel no longer available' from 6am 12/7/26.

OLD BOY 06-07-2026 23:09
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36218861)
I'd miss Suggestions too but, most importantly, QuickView. It will take about 30% longer to watch programmes.
As far as suggestions are concerned, the 360 does that. It’s in the ‘You might like’ section on the home page.

RichardCoulter 07-07-2026 14:40
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36219088)
As far as suggestions are concerned, the 360 does that. It’s in the ‘You might like’ section on the home page.
I could happily live with that, but wish they'd make an effort to deal with the other missing TiVo features.

gunner45 07-07-2026 16:38
Re: Virgin TV (2026)
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 36219129)
I could happily live with that, but wish they'd make an effort to deal with the other missing TiVo features.
It's Liberty Global in charge if the boxes, and as the TV 360 is being phased out, there is zero chance of it being enhanced just for TiVo features. However, as this box shares the same Horizon 4 middleware as the Stream box, then any middleware enhancements come to both.


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