So far so good - had it for about 12 hours now and, uninitialised PIN problem (cleared by a quick phone call to Faults - fixed in about an hour) and dodgy HDMI picture (fixed by a reboot) aside, I like the cut of the machine's jib. After being spoilt by Tivo for 6 years, it's nice to have a new toy to play with. Setting up recordings is a doozie, esp season links (have already set up a load), and playback quality is fine (aside from a few audio drop outs, about 0.5 sec - maybe only applies to Living TV ?).
Programmed with Harmony 525 remote and this is now flawlessly operating the box, the guide and the home feature (used Scientific Atlanta 8300DVB and made a few changes, including adding the colour buttons).
Picture quality and sound quality excellent - the BBC HD preview was just incredible : really good picture and 5.1 audio (my subwoofer was giving out the relevant thwumps) - can't wait to see some live sport and other stuff. Even upscaled SD looks superb through HDMI, miles better than the old Pace box connected via SCART RGB (not much difference, if any, in SCART RGB between old Pace box and V+HD, incidentally).
So far, thumbs up - a couple of remote lock ups (but heeded advice about waiting for box to catch up
). We'll see how it fares after a fortnight.
Incidentally, I got a silver TV Drive, but has new Virgin EPG.