[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

I have a feeling you could be right, OB. Would be a nice surprise if VM have already agreed something in place for Sky Cinema 4K UHD movies...That's probably wishful thinking though

I don't think that channel even exists yet, UC. Aren't these films shown on demand on Sky at present?

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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

I didn't have to pay anything to upgrade and someone has posted that CS have said that customers will be upgraded for free, however, as Ben says, no commercial details have yet been announced so this may not mean anything.

I've noticed that there are duplicate greyed out apps on the V6 eg the iPlayer, when clicked on an "App temporarily unavailable" message appears.

Can someone please check if this is the same on the old box, if not, I wonder if these are some form of an app version of channel placeholders for future services.

When the box is widely available, could we see more apps coming to TiVo??

Talking of the iPlayer, it's now almost instantaneous and is quicker than using my Smart TV as I used to do before.

One thing about every digital TV service that i've ever used is that there is always a couple of seconds delay when changing channels. Apparently, this is because the boxes have to decode/decompress the signal.

With the V6, it's like going back to the analogue days- it's instantaneous! Not sure how they've managed to do this, but it makes channel surfing much quicker and easier.

In fact you now have to be careful not to miss a channel on the way!

Loading apps is much quicker too, obviously it's not instantaneous as it has the additional task of connecting to the internet; it takes about the length of time that the old TiVo takes to change from one linear channel to another.

What's Sky Q like in this respect?

It's beginning to look like Virgin's speed problems will soon be in the past. I can't wait to get this box, personally.