TIVO Hard Drive Question!
 

Hi folks, i cancelled my virgin tv about 6 months ago due to losing my job.
I still have the 500gb tivo box in the loft despite several attempts to get virgin to take it back.

Ive now found a guy selling bush freeview recorders on ebay for £20 they just need a hard drive installing, i miss not being able to record TV, and as virgin dont seem to want their box back i thought i might take out the tivo hdd and use it in this.

What i wanted to ask is does anybody know if the tivo hdd contains any type of encryption or will i just beable to format it in the bush recorder?

Moneys still tight so would rather not just blow £20. Any advice would be greatly appreiciated, thanks.

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Sorry to hear that you have lost your job, but don't take the TiVo hard drive out it is still VM property!!!

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I'm surprised Virgin Media haven't sent you a bill to replace it yet, as you haven't returned it. I believe the replacement charge for TiVo is somewhere around £250

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I'm surprised they haven't arranged a date to pick it up because lets face it they arrange a date to come and install it....but wait,the customer was going to spend money each month then,but now?.......:rolleyes:

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Equipment collections are prompted to be arranged on the system whenever services are disconnected

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Ben,he disconnected over 6 months ago.

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***Coming soon***

Couldn't resist it !!! :naughty:

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And he's by no means the only person to have complained about this on this forum.

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Just do it and if VM do contact you charge then 6 months storage costs

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Yup, I'm aware of that.

But I've seen it on the system myself, whenever a service is fully disconnected, the agent is prompted to either arrange postal collection or a manned collection of the kit as appropriate. I'm pretty sure you can't complete the disconnection order without doing so.

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Well that's obviously not the problem, then. But that doesn't mean there isn't one.

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And the op does say despite several attempts, you will probably find it is to much hassle for someone. I think if Virgin have made no physical attempt to recollect it after 6 months you should be in your rights to claim it as your own property and just chuck it in the bin.

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LOL , arrrh bless.