Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Did you miss my comment about ITV Catchup being 30 days on my connected TV so clearly thats not the case.

Both the connected ITV Hub app and Sky have 30 day catchup so the only differences are the ITV Catchup on Sky has HD and doesn't force you to watch ads.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

https://blogs.which.co.uk/technology...-media-tv-box/

just seen this page a few hints there of what the new box may feature. Although page is almost a year old it does mention the proposed new features.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

That's far more likely to be a signal fault than anything wrong with the box. You'll need to report it to VM to get it fixed.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

I had this once, turned out a cat had chewed the wire leading to the box!

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Choice.

I only have the choice of watching something if its on my hard drives, I don't have that choice if I don't have large drives.

Netflix, Now TV etc are all good except when you want to watch a tv episode and find that that episode or even the entire season of a series has been removed.

Roll on laser drives and over the next decade 100TB drives.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

With Sky Q on demand - The new series of The Blacklist (Sky Living) is available in 4K UHD, is this the sort of content that will be exclusive to Sky?

I'm guessing it is, but would be great if VM managed secure a deal with Sky on content like this. The Blacklist is brilliant.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Well it might be but when the v6 box launches, the better the v6 is, the less likely it will be that sky would give us access

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

As I understand it, UHD is a red button service on Sky and will not be available on other platforms initially.

Virgin Media will have their own UHD content, some of which also may be exclusive.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

For the Blacklist, this is accessed through the on-demand section rather than the red button. The 4K UHD version is only available after the show has aired on Sky Living. This is what made me think about whether VM would be able to agree something with Sky for on-demand content. (maybe they already have ;-) )

The red button is used for UHD live football and probably the F1 next year too.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

It's only red button for sport. And even then the sports appear in a special UHD section of the TV guide, so you can set the UHD shows to record too.

There are UHD movies, free with Sky Cinema and to buy through Sky Store, which are downloaded. They can be watched when 'enough' of a buffer has been downloaded. For me with 200Mb/s Virgin broadband this is after about 10 secs, typically. I have never experienced 'buffering' when watching content downloading from Sky - Virgin broadband does a great job! There are UHD Boxsets that work the same way.

There have been only very few new shows so far, where UHD is available simultaneously with first broadcast. Sky seem to be "busking" that a bit at the moment. For The Young Pope they are adding the UHD episodes to a box set just before the show airs, so people can choose to download the UHD version instead of watching on Sky Atlantic. The Blacklist seems to be done in a slightly different way. But Sky have said they intend a better way, which may mean the same red button style system or a special UHD Channel. We don't know yet. Rumour is maybe around the end of the year, but that's pure speculation!

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Now been informed that it's likely to be about a week.

To help others, I asked if it would cost any more either in an upfront payment or ongoing weekly cost and when it will be released to other customers.

I was told that I wouldn't be charged anything extra at all* and that they hope to release it on 1 December 2016.

* I'm not sure if this is an extra concession for me or if nobody will be charged anything extra.

I will be put onto another one year contract starting from when I am satisfied that the V6 performs satisfactorily.

I'm not bothered about this as I will have a box that doesn't take ages to carry out commands and will be paying less than before the price rise.

Well done VM! I'm happy to congratulate them when they get things right.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

I've just had my box swapped out due to a faulty hard drive meaning all my recordings were unwatchable. The engineer said he had V6 boxes in the van but hadn't had a job yet. He echoed what's been said here that they're only going to select new customers as part of a pilot (unless you whine and moan it seems).

Slightly gutting when he had them yet I'm going to loose all my recordings yet again when I can get the V6 hopefully in a month or two.


-A.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Commercially, that makes sense, given that new customers, receiving an old slow box could cancel. The slowness would cause an instant bad impression, and Tivo's features would be less obvious.

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

If you are happy to pay a price increase for an inferior box, that's your prerogative.

If you choose to do this, you shouldn't "whine" or "moan" about it on here, but do something about it as I did.

As the old saying goes "put up and shut up, or do something about it".

Re: Virgin Media V6 - Powered by TiVo(new STB)
 

Agreed, also the demonstrations would take a long time as well so fewer installs in a day ;)