[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes

I'm no expert but from what I gather the only boxes that can handle MPEG-4 for certain are the Samsung version of V+ HD box, either version of the TiVo as they're technically identical apart from hard drive size and presumably the regular Cisco-made V HD box.

I think that is right going by what i have read on this blog.

Its forthcoming retirement would push Virgin one step closer to switching all of its HD content (linear and VOD) from the MPEG 2 video codec to the more bandwidth efficient MPEG 4, which is used by every other Digital TV platform in the UK for delivering HD content. The TiVo boxes, along with the Samsung V+ HD and the V box, can handle MPEG 4, but the older Scientific Atlanta V+ HD/TV Drive boxes can't. When Virgin get all of their 3.7 million customers into MPEG 4 capable hardware (which won't be a quick process), they could switch to MPEG 4 for HD and potentially use the freed-up bandwidth for more channels.

http://virgintivo.blogspot.com/2011/...or-virgin.html