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indie1982 · 21-12-2010, 22:31

From what I've read, I would very much doubt that the Virgin Media TiVo box will have DVB-C2 tuners. I found an article which says VM are "supportive of DVB-C2" but have "no plans" to deploy it, although that's from 2009.

If VM have the capacity they say they do then they won't need DVB-C2 for a number of years, spending the money on upgrading infrastructure and customer hardware right now wouldn't be the most frugal of moves. VM are working towards an analog switch off which will give them even more of the spectrum to play with just with DVB-C.

Having said that, spectrum efficiency can be greatly in increased with DVB-C2 and gains in downstream capacity can be as much as 60% over DVB-C deployments once analog has been switched off.

It's definitely something VM will have to look at but I think they can afford to wait for the next generation of boxes we'll see after this incarnation of TiVo to implement.

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indie1982 Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Services: M Phone, XL BB, XL TV and 2 SA V+ Posts: 238	Re: Tivo mpeg 2 or 4? From what I've read, I would very much doubt that the Virgin Media TiVo box will have DVB-C2 tuners. I found an article which says VM are "supportive of DVB-C2" but have "no plans" to deploy it, although that's from 2009. If VM have the capacity they say they do then they won't need DVB-C2 for a number of years, spending the money on upgrading infrastructure and customer hardware right now wouldn't be the most frugal of moves. VM are working towards an analog switch off which will give them even more of the spectrum to play with just with DVB-C. Having said that, spectrum efficiency can be greatly in increased with DVB-C2 and gains in downstream capacity can be as much as 60% over DVB-C deployments once analog has been switched off. It's definitely something VM will have to look at but I think they can afford to wait for the next generation of boxes we'll see after this incarnation of TiVo to implement.