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Originally Posted by OLDGOLD
Hi
From what I'm reading, it appears that the new V6 box has to be connected to the internet and the TV service is therefore streamed to the box, rather than there being a separate feed directly to the box (like all the old TiVo boxes). Is that correct?
I considered getting Sky Q after getting a 4K TV, but my set up is that I have the main box upstairs and my mom has her own separate box downstairs. With the new Sky Q multiroom, her box would just be an idle box for streaming from my main box through my home network. So I had to forget that idea because if my internet went down or my router went on the blink whilst I was out at work she would be left without any telly as she wouldn't have a clue how to rectify it and couldn't get upstairs to my router anyway due to health issues. She'd also get very confused having to navigate to her own shows through the large amount of shows I'd have stored on the planner. And she'd probably delete some of my programs without me realising!
When I heard about VM's V6 box, I was very tempted as the reviews I read suggested you could still have two separate boxes that didn't need to be linked like the Sky Q boxes. But now I keep reading about the boxes needing to be connected to the internet, so it looks like I'm back to square one again.
Can someone please confirm if you can have two V6 boxes working independently of each other and without having to be connected to the internet in order to watch/record broadcast TV channels?
Thanking you all kindly.
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Each v6 will have its own tv feed independent of both the internet connection and the other box. Both need the internet for services like netflix and iPlayer and if you want to stream recordings between both they both need to be networked but their isn't a master and slave concept like sky q.....both v6s are their own master.