Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

I've seen nothing to suggest that the Anywhere service will allow recordings will be streamed, only live TV.

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The main difference will be everything available in one slick interface with the ability to watch recordings directly from the TiVo box you have at home. Personally I'd rather have Virgin Anywhere ahead of having to use various apps over a series of devices.

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Deleted: My post didn't make a lot of sense :D

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that is only in a later update isn't it ? That would require the TIVO stream wouldn't it ?

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http://www.whathifi.com/news/virgin-...imate-tivo-app

"Also on the to-do list is the ability to watch your own personal recordings stored on your TiVo box on your tablet or smartphone. Clever."

What HiFi where the first to have access to Virgin Anywhere and broke the story a couple of weeks ago. Whilst watching recordings won't be available from launch, it seems to be one of many updates we should see in 2013.

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Okay I've done some more digging and I'm a little confused about the info to hand.

The Inquirer states:

"Virgin told us that it expects to have around 30 live channels available from launch across genres such as sports, kids, news and entertainment."

However T3.Com gives an alternative version:

"Boasting 2,000 hours of on-demand content across 30 channels"

http://www.t3.com/news/virgin-media-...in-tv-anywhere

The T3 article suggests there will be 2000 hours of content over 30 on demand channels plus linear channels too. This seems to make sense because Virgin do offer 30 channels of on demand material if you are on their top package:

1. BBC
2. ITV Net Player
3. 4 on Demand
4. US Boxsets
5. Warner TV
6. Aardman Animations
7. Comedy Central
8. CBS Reality
9. E! Entertainment
10. FX
11. CBS Action
12. Discovery
13. National Geographic
14. Bio
15. History
16. Crime & Investigation
17. PBS America
18. MTV
19. Extreme Sports Channel
20. ESPN Classic
21. Military History
22. CNBC
23. Baby Channel
24. SKY 1
25. SKY Living
26. SKY Arts
27. SKY News
28. SKY Movies
29. SKY Sports
30. Virgin Central

So what is really launching?

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

Stop trying to copy me:)

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Yep, CNET just says their looking into it:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/homecinema/v...ival-50009126/

Its odd, the point of PVRs is to free viewers from the broadcasters TV schedules, but with both Sky Go and the initial version of Virgin TV Anywhere, you're locked back into being a slave to those schedules for streaming (especially if the content you want to stream isn't on VOD).

The whole 'stream recordings' feature can't come soon enough, and will hopefully open the door for box-to-box streaming too.

As for what's available, I'm sure its 3-ish linear TV channels to stream + over 2000 hours of VOD.

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I guess streaming live TV and VOD are easy i would suspect that your Tivo is not actually involved in either of these two and the streams come direct from Virgin via your internet connection.

To stream what you have recorded would need direct access to your box and I suspect this is where things get complicated like needing your Tivo to be networked, I believe in the version that is being prepped for you only need to network your Tivo if you want to use the app as a remote.

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What has Sky had for "years"?

Sky Go for iOS first launched in July 2011 (just over one year ago), with an initially extremely limited selection of live TV to stream (this has since grown, gradually).

It was updated in November of last year with on-demand films, and updated again in July of this year with more on-demand content.

The Sky+ app for the iPad was updated in August of this year to allow the app to be used as a remote control and also enable full access to the Planner to allow recordings to be scheduled and managed. Both of those features require the Sky box to be on the same network as the iPad, via Ethernet or WiFi (£60 dongle from Sky, or a cheaper 3rd party bridge). These features are currently only available to Sky customers who have the latest Amstrad Sky+HD boxes, as the new EPG is required.


The only thing Sky has had "for years" is the basic Remote Record.

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

Sky Mobile TV was there long before Sky Go.

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

Only the year before from what I can find, plus it only offered the Sport channels.

Being able to watch general entertainment channels live or on-demand on a mobile device is still quite recent.

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

Hm, I always thought it was on the N95, maybe I'm wrong.

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

This is basically a re-launch of Virgin Media Player plus TiVo commander and the promise of some exciting updates which will be reliant on rights issues being resolved, then?

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

If I had a small house to bet, I'd bet on these 30:

Re: Virgin TV Anywhere arriving in Autumn 2012
 

All well and good but rights issues can drag on for a eternity without being resolved and as we know dates on updates seem to slip all the time.