Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35947137)

Recording live sport is dangerous lol. I don't record a football game I'm going to miss as the results appear all over the place.

The same goes for any major live sporting event...results appear instantly these days.

I do record the F1, but have to make sure I don't look at the news on my phone, and try to avoid it from tv and radio. I'm not always successful :mad::td: lol

Although if you are watching something on one channel, with something else on another channel, then you'd need to record one. Depends how long you are going to keep the recordings for? They wouldn't take up that much space if you watched it pretty much straight away. Otherwise you run risk of finding out the result elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35947139)

No choice but to record - for instance there are 17 live rugby union/league matches plus the FA Cup Final on Saturday alone.

Secret is to watch the games you will hear the result of first.

As for your suggestion that UHD recordings won't take up that much space if you watched it pretty quickly - I am fairly sure the amount of space each recording will use is the same if you keep it for 1 day or 1 month. Of course the cumulative space used will be more the longer you keep them for, but this also applies to HD recordings.

My thoughts on the pitiful disk space remain

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj (Post 35947140)

RE: the recording space - The cumulative space is what I meant, sorry I should have been clearer. Least you know what I'm talking about lol

As, like you say, the amount of space taken up would remain the same regardless of the time you kept the recording for.

Is there any mention of external hard-drives being compatible with the V6 to improve recording space? This might have already been mentioned in the thread before...apologies if it has.

Thinking about it, probably not as VM would want you to purchase more V6 boxes to increase the storage capacity that way.

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35947139)

No choice but to record - for instance there are 17 live rugby union/league matches plus the FA Cup Final on Saturday alone.

Secret is to watch the games you will hear the result of first.

As for your suggestion that UHD recordings won't take up that much space if you watched it pretty quickly - I am fairly sure the amount of space each recording will use is the same if you keep it for 1 day or 1 month. Of course the cumulative space used will be more the longer you keep them for, but this also applies to HD recordings.

My thoughts on the pitiful disk space remain

Originally Posted by Raider999 (Post 35947142)

In the past (when with sky), I have opened up the box and put a bigger disk in myself - not seen any reports of people trying this with the V6

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 35947147)

I thought he meant watch everything fairly quickly and then delete it. That way, you would not have too many recordings in 'My Shows' at any one tiime, which makes sense if you can live with that.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35947163)

It was done with the V+, but not heard about anyone trying it with the TiVo or V6.

The TiVo is a bit difficult to get into as they tried to make it tamper proof (I assume the V6 has too?), but it's still possible to get into them. A fair few have done this to get the HDD out to re-use before scrapping them.

Thinking about it this might be why some turn up on eBay etc.

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter (Post 35947192)

Do you mean that you put a larger HDD in or recycled the old existing one?

How difficult was it to get it open?

Originally Posted by Ddonald2016 (Post 35947198)

Here is one sky are renaming the racing uk channel in 2019 to sky sports racing, will that be joining the sky sports pack

Originally Posted by trickytree (Post 35947242)

I upgraded my original S1 TiVo as it was way too small and there were lots of help pages at the time back in the early 2000s.
I seem to remember the biggest faff was getting the software onto it.
I still have it in my garage along with the remote and should probably just bin it as no good for anything else now.
I had the lifetime subscription on it also :cry:

Originally Posted by nodrogd (Post 35947323)

The page that originaly stated the Champions League Final would be in UHD on Virgin has had the comment removed:

Not good news.

http://www.virginmedia.com/virgin-tv...gue-final.html