Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network
 

Since Monday (March 11th) Media Boy Sources has reveal that it look like Virgin Media are set to remove V+ HD Boxes from the network soon.

My Source has told me that they have seen an on screen info saying "This is an older box" and "You need to call us to order an new box".

But my Source say they have been given no news about the new box via Royal Mail. Or been given an date on when it will happen.

Can anyone confirm when the V+ Boxes will be removed?

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They all should have been swapped by now. They've been in the process of being swapped since last year.

Anyone with an active V+ box should have had a least one mail via post or email about it. The end date for the swap was 28th February, with no guarantee of a working V+ box after that date.

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But I was told the on-screen info just appeared on Monday on they box. It an V+ HD box. I know V Boxes was axe on January 29th.

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Is this all V+ boxes out of curiosity?

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Yes. All V+ boxes are being swapped out.

V HD boxes are also being swapped but as yet that's not all of them

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Let the V+HD go MB or they'll send the bailiffs round ! Could there be a siege situation ? ;)

(Actually the VHD i was quite fond of, a small quite box for the bedroom. However the V+ was a noisy unreliable piece of junk....)

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Loved the VHD box excellent piece of Kit.

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My parents used to have a V+ HD box was a Cisco version I think, it was certainly better than the legacy NTL Pace box at the time that got very slow after one of the major firmware updates in the NTL era.

Given how slow the Pace boxes got eventually, I wonder how long VM kept them going for, out of curiosity sake

Re: Virgin Media UK to remove V+ HD Boxes from network
 

AFAIK there were some still on the network until a few months ago. Now that they've gone, channels are gradually going HD only where possible.

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Given the debt piles all the UK Cable companies created digged up the pavements I think it was partly trying to spend as little as possible in order to reduce the debt. So they kept them going until they keeled over.

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Those would have been Samsung SD only boxes.

I'm pretty sure the Pace SD boxes all went years ago.

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That wasn't really a factor. Most of the debt was written off very many years ago (2002-ish). Pace were still supplying new boxes up to 2004.

There just isn't any point in replacing boxes that are still able to provide all the services required of them.

A few Pace boxes were in use until last October. The batteries in them were designed to last 5 years, but some actually lasted almost 20.

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Just had a really arrogant guy on the phone who said he wanted to arrange to swap out our V HD box. I asked him for some evidence that he was from VM and he became quite offensive so I told him to 'go away', errr well words to that effect, and hung up on him.

We do have a V6 box and the V HD box which I see may well need replacing so ..after a long ramble... could someone confirm that the V HD box will need to be replaced and if so what will VM replace it with.

I thought VM would be contacting affected customers by email or post so if the phone call I have just been subjected to was legitimate would I need to contact VM to arrange the swap out process.

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Some V-HD boxes are being replaced now, so it probably is legit. Not sure whether you'd get a V6 or a TiVo 500GB as a replacement.

So you haven't had messages popping up on your box since Monday?

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Batteries? Were they designed to work during a power cut?