Originally Posted by richardc1983

I thought the whole point of this though is that there would be lots of content etc.

IT isnt obvious either how to use it... you say press clear but no where on screen does it show you that option or what to press so unless I asked I wouldnt know.

I do have to say it is dissapointing so far... to say I have paid £149 and then you have £3 a month for a few extra features such as extra tuner and wishlists etc the rest is kind of shoddy.

Originally Posted by VirginMediaPhil

Right. First impressions.

Series link is so messy. You have to manually set the padding for each series link. Also, I have to set it to record new and reruns because the guide data doesn't work on just 'new' for about 99.99% of all shows. So now I have to delete a load of re-runs. So much for progress, eh? This is my biggest concern. This needs to be fixed. Get that guide data sorted (or return to the old V+ way of doing it) and bring back bulk padding. Also, why can I do the series link options as an overlay on search, but on the guide I have to go into the old SDUI? I'd rather it be an overlay on everything. It's almost as if it's unfinished.

I had completely forgotten about the automatic rewind/fast-forward skip back/forward and assumed it was a glitch or something. I thought it would be a good thing for me but I actually started to think it was bad. Anyway, I solve it by pressing the pause button twice instead of pressing the play button.

Right onto the good points! It's nice and fast. It doesn't take 2 seconds to pause anymore. I press pause, and it instantly pauses. I press play, and it instantly plays. The fast forward is really smooth, something I wouldn't expect on HD digital recordings. The rewind isn't as smooth, but it's still pretty smooth.

The fact I have 1TB on my hands hasn't hit me. It's like, even though I didn't have to worry about my box storage, as it rarely went over half full, I know don't ever have to worry about filling up my box with HD recordings. The box is bigger than I thought it would when I saw the pictures. It's the same width as the V+, I thought it would be smaller. But I don't mind about that, I have plenty of space.

Installation took around 4 hours. Yes, you read that right, 4 hours. There was a huge kerfuffle over moving the V+ into the other room which I won't bother going into, and the engineer trying to setup the remote by not turning the remote away from the box as instructed on screen, thereby turning the box off numerous times.

In the end though, it's all okay now. Apart from the series links, padding and skip-back quirks I don't like. But yeah, it's all fine.