1TB Tivo's being phased out and replaced with V6's?
 

I have a 1TB Tivo box and a V6. Just had an engineer out because the Tivo died and he said I was unlucky as he had one 1TB Tivo left on his van otherwise he would have had to replace it with another V6 as the 1TB boxes were being phased out and they were just going to keep the 500GB ones.
If this is definitely the case my Tivo may just go wrong again in a few weeks ;)

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If they downgraded my 1Tb to 500Gb they would get it shoved up their 'arris..

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Tivo 1tb have been phased out months ago. A small number is kept for replacents. In my area if there are no tivo1tbs we use a tivo500

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I've just removed one from my account and was requested to return it.

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And customers are happy with this? I know I wouldn't be

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I can see trouble ahead with this policy. It is not replacing like for like.

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Ive been lucky, the two times Its happened to me the customer wasnt fussed, I have 4 in my van just now so I think it must be an area thing

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I agree it should be a V6, especially if the customer paid extra for the storage

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Exactly, as a matter of intrest what would happen if the customer refused the "sub standard" replacement?

The key part is the customer paid extra for the larger storage. I can see retentions being busy in your area and the engineers having to re-visit with V6's.

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They would probly get a v6 on quickstart when they complain to retentions

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Only problem with a 1 TB V6 box is you cannot archive recordings off directly, this is really important for some customers with a 1 TB TiVo box!

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My main problem with V6 is that it doesn't have SCART and HDMI -> SCART converter is composite and not good enough.

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What is that supposed to help with?

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Is this VM being backwards again? Surely they'd keep the TiVo with the higher storage.

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If it was up to me I would have stopped production of the Tivo500 and have kept the 1TB model, its probably cheaper to buy a 1TB HDD than a 0.5TB HDD

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tweetiepooh was complaining that a scart coverter was composite.

My bad, scart is composite anyway.

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Your link was to a SCART to HDMI convertor. And SCART can carry individual RGB drives if the destination can accept them. I used to run our Philips 100Hz matchline like that from the Samsung box and has set my mothers TV to the same from her Sky box.

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OK then THIS one instead.

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Scart?? Kinda old tech that, is it not!

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When it's running component RGB it isn't that different to a component analog connection via phono leads. That's pretty decent quality. Remember that no matter how "digital" a source is, it eventually has to be converted to analog for display.

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Only way to download recordings to DVD recorder (unless you know better)

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Dvd recorder, that's old tech too!

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Very fond of my TiVo scart out, it feeds a dvd recorder and 3 extra tvs. The V6 won't won't be crossing my threshold anytime soon.

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lol, no I don't, and I don't have a need to download to even older tech....:D

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Got a V6 and Hub 3 sent via self install kit to replace one of my two TiVos and a SHub 2 and was told to dispose of my old kit in a recycling centre.