Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

A new TIVO is currently in the works from VM with 2tb storage and 4k, no further info at the moment.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

ok, but i thought lg would what all tv boxes the same like they are trying to do with the modems

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

That's half the price of my mortgage :shocked:

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Crikey your mansion must be nice Sir.;)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

The Horizon box has a very small hard drive, though!

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That is very good news, particularly if this one overcomes the speed issues.

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I have not picked up any news from LG that they intend to ditch the Tivo boxes used by Virgin Media.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

As far as the eye can see the TiVo is here to stay..

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

LGI only use Horizon in 5 of the 14 countries that they operate in.
http://www.libertyglobal.com/horizon.html

And it isn't very widely used in some of those. For example, in Germany "only 6% of our total video base subscribed to our Horizon TV platform"
http://www.libertyglobal.com/pdf/pre...ease-FINAL.pdf

TiVo is here to stay. The VM/TiVo contract was extended earlier this year
http://pr.tivo.com/press-releases/vi...q-tivo-1185551

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

"The TiVo solution provides an all-in-one approach for navigating the 'content chaos' by seamlessly combining live, recorded, on-demand and over-the-top television into one intuitive user interface."

LOL... I'd love to know what TIVO box they are talking about. You could never describe the TIVO boxes we have now as 'seamless'.

Clunky, Yes!
Slow, Yes!
Laborious, Yes
Seamless?....noooooooooooo!!!

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

It definitely seems to be getting slower, not sure where the next update is due to be coming.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

As others have said Virgin will cut their own throats if they continue to keep on increasing prices the way they are doing. Also they seem quite obsessed with broadband speed when the majority of customers just don`t care less. :td:

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

Have you ever tried Sky's broadband? as where my parents live its the stuff of nightmares with speeds of less of 1MB.:td:

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Apart from the occasional blip it still beats the vast majority of the opposition hands down in my humble unbiased opinion.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

Yup, the current gf only gets about 9mb from Sky's BB - BT guarantee at least 31mb. Trying to convince her to change to BT, would be good to get some "free" sport again.:)

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

[QUOTE=denphone;35807379]Have you ever tried Sky's broadband? as where my parents live its the stuff of nightmares with speeds of less of 1MB.:td:[COLOR="Silver"]

Yes I used to have Sky broadband and had far less trouble with it than I currently do with virgins. I only get 54mb with virgin,supposed to be `up to 150 mb`! I can`t remember what speed I got with Sky broadband but it was far less trouble that I can remember.

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That is a physical limitation of the Openreach network in there area , there property is obviously some distance from the exchange with no fibre available. There speeds would be similar if they signed up with BT , Plusnet , Talk Talk etc.
In most places where BT Infinity is available Sky offers its own Sky Fibre service which should deliver the same speeds.

Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2015) Vol. 2
 

I moved from VM to Sky 6 months ago, I've had absolutely no issues and I'm completely satisfied with their service. I get 38Mbs download, never noticed it dropping. The upload is important to me and I get 7.8Mbs, the best I ever got with VM was 1.75Mb which constantly dropped to 512Kb (I assume throttling) typically I only ever uploaded a build DVD to work.

Years ago VM was the best in many respects, VOD was second to none. It isn't any more, Sky's VOD is really extensive and current. Now VM are putting up prices by 5.5% I think I've made the correct choice in moving to Sky:)

I'm now paying £20 a month less for a better service.