Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36209381)

And if you haven't upgraded?

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36209412)

Self inflicted wounds!

Originally Posted by stann0 (Post 36209526)

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

Originally Posted by neil79;c-107542208

Checked with Sky if they can beat the BT offer and they would beat BT for fibre but there seemed to be some confusion on the TV package that I required.
If you take a sky TV package you can't just take the Sport package like on BT. You are required to take a Sky ultimate or maybe Sky Essentials add on and doing the sums the discount on the fibre is lost on the TV deal. The Sky salesperson seemed surprised when I said the Sky TV was more expensive than BT and advised me to double check the BT renewal offer small print which I will do. The Sky person seemed to think I would need to pay BT for the TV box with FTA channels and a recording feature but that is included with the Sport package. The sky Ultimate was offered at £14 for channels I don't require which is cheaper than on the Sky website.
Quite surprised that Sky currently don't seem to be able to beat my BT renewal deal. They have been calling me for the last 2 years about going back to Sky and at one time offered to payoff my BT contract so I could go back to Sky.

Originally Posted by stann0 (Post 36209526)

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 36209537)

We had that problem last week - powering it down for 10 minutes, then rebooting it seemed to resolve the issue.

Originally Posted by stann0 (Post 36209526)

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 36209551)

It can be replaced with a TiVo V6 regardless of Richard says.

Originally Posted by stann0 (Post 36209526)

My old Tivo box is on the way out. Breakup on all recordings so I presume the HDD is failing. Question is - will they replace it with a 360 or try and palm me off with a stream box? I'd like to know my position before ringing them. Looking at the relative specs I have absolutely no interest in the stream box - I wouldn't use any of the streaming features and would miss out on everything the traditional box does - mainly recording programmes to watch later.

I gather from a few web searches VM are trying to move people over to the stream box. That would be the end of VM TV for me - a deal-breaker. Would it be grounds to cancel my contract?

Any feedback welcome!

Originally Posted by ozsat (Post 36209563)

Have you done an entended watch of live tv to ensure thatis OK?

We don't watch much live tv and our recordings were breaking up at times.

Turned out to be a loose coax connection.

Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36209449)

Sorry , I am a if it ain't broke don't fix it kind of guy. And I still fail to find any reason to change , if I have too then I will cross that bridge when I come to it.
Having looked at a few sites , here , tec radar etc. I can find no reason to change from v6 , there is nothing that I would need that I cannot do at this time. But each to their own

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36209570)

If you are perfectly happy with your TiVo, that’s perfectly OK, at least for now. I prefer the picture based screens, like Netflix, rather than lists.

But as you say, each to their own.

Originally Posted by OLD BOY (Post 36209570)

If you are perfectly happy with your TiVo, that’s perfectly OK, at least for now. I prefer the picture based screens, like Netflix, rather than lists.

But as you say, each to their own.