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jambul 03-04-2013 02:40

Streaming?
 
I do not see the point in having the facility to watch what you have recorded on your Tivo on a second one in another room when it does not work. All but one of the programs that have been recorded come up with a message saying that they are not licenced to play it. It's a great idea if it worked but it doesn't. Why have Virgin introduced such a flawed system?

toady 03-04-2013 10:03

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Blame the broadcasters who are still living in the dark ages, they won't permit their precious shows from being streamed to another box without a new carriage agreement being signed with VM

muppetman11 03-04-2013 11:37

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jambul (Post 35556045)
I do not see the point in having the facility to watch what you have recorded on your Tivo on a second one in another room when it does not work. All but one of the programs that have been recorded come up with a message saying that they are not licenced to play it. It's a great idea if it worked but it doesn't. Why have Virgin introduced such a flawed system?

To be fair though none of VM's competitors have a similar product currently available to their customer bases I'm sure sooner rather than later this situation will change and comparisons can begin to be made which in turn should help improve the product for customers of all platforms.

jambul 03-04-2013 12:06

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I understand that they are not allowed to do so because of the restrictions, however, I would have thought that they would have sorted this out before introducing it. It is like putting films on a Blu Ray disc before there is a player to play them on, its pointless. As I have said, it is a great idea but it does not work.

OLD BOY 03-04-2013 13:30

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Yes, but at least it's futureproof!

passingbat 03-04-2013 13:50

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And why don't OFCOM do something useful and tell the broadcaster that what they are doing regarding restricting Tivo to Tivo streaming defies all basic common sense and logic and to lift the restrictions.

Joedm45 03-04-2013 16:22

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Completely agree there is no logic in this. Does it really matter if you watch a show in the living room or bedroom?

If the TV show was recorded onto DVD then you can take it anywhere you want to watch it and the powers that be would be none the wiser

muppetman11 04-04-2013 11:52

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Are you able to stream recordings from newly acquired channels like France 24 and Vintage TV ?

paultrademark 04-04-2013 12:31

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Quote:

Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 35556711)
Are you able to stream recordings from newly acquired channels like France 24 and Vintage TV ?

Both are available for MRS but don't seem available on TVA.

spiderplant 04-04-2013 13:26

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Multiroom streaming has been enabled on these channels since the original launch:

Al Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera English
Animal Planet +1
ARY News UK
British Eurosport 2HD
Discovery History +1
Discovery Science +1
DMAX
DMAX + 1
FRANCE24 (ENGLISH)
FRANCE24 (FRANCAIS)
Home & Health +1
ID
NDTV Good Times
Quest
Quest +1
Star Gold
Vintage TV

howardmicks 04-04-2013 13:47

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35556783)
Multiroom streaming has been enabled on these channels since the original launch:

Al Jazeera Arabic
Al Jazeera English
Animal Planet +1
ARY News UK
British Eurosport 2HD
Discovery History +1
Discovery Science +1
DMAX
DMAX + 1
FRANCE24 (ENGLISH)
FRANCE24 (FRANCAIS)
Home & Health +1
ID
NDTV Good Times
Quest
Quest +1
Star Gold
Vintage TV

Oh dear the choice is worse than I thought,vm should be embarrassed by this choice

mike_gain 04-04-2013 14:05

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Quote:

Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35556800)
Oh dear the choice is worse than I thought,vm should be embarrassed by this choice

I think spiderplant meant that when the channels were first launched the launched with multiroom streaming enabled.

The full channel list can be found here: http://my.virginmedia.com/discover/t...s.snippet.html

paultrademark 04-04-2013 14:22

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Still poor, we need a lot more channels in the 101-199 range, not one single one so far!

HDFootyMan 04-04-2013 20:00

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No interest whatsoever in streaming the currently available channels.

DaMac 04-04-2013 20:02

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My tv will let me flick what I'm watching on to my iPad for me to take for instance into the kitchen with me or the bathroom... But this is the same, none of the channels you would actually want to watch on freesat are enabled.


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