Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Old 30-05-2018, 17:56   #917
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by Chloé Palmas View Post
I got a few 4K tvs about 4 years ago now (well 2 of them like 3 years ago, hubby got one) and the idea was that Sky would add in a 4K box but Q sounds like a disaster and the few updates that they have done on the old HD boxes suck...(there is now such a slow clunky interface, search has issues etc).

The amount of 4K content is abysmal, too. UK TV (not that specific set of networks but in general) really is in a bad place these days and patience is going to have to be the key right now. The wait may be long though - for now the likes of streaming services seem to be the only way to go.
I've said it before - UHD takes up far too much recording space. HD is bad enough - I have to spread these recordings over three boxes now as opposed to the 1TB Tivo we had before, on which I recorded most programmes in SD. I wouldn't even think of recording UHD. For this reason, I think that most UHD is likely to be streamed or on demand, unless of course we can 'record' to the cloud. If it were to be otherwise, I am sure our UHD-ready V6 boxes would have been manufactured with a bigger hard drive.

As far as the Sky Q is concerned, both my daughters have this, and to be honest, it is an improvement on the Sky HD boxes. I just prefer the V6 and the way it works, and I like the fact that I can double the number of recordings with the link to my upstairs box, which I can view also from the lounge.

I must say that I don't like how you have to download on demand programmes onto your hard drive with Sky's system. With Virgin you can either go straight into your selected programme or you can bookmark it so that it appears in 'My Shows' but without taking up valuable recording space.

As for the lack of UHD, tell me about it. However, I think that 2018 is set to be the year when this starts to change, at least on VM.

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Originally Posted by ozsat View Post
Yep - any content from CatchUp or OnDemand (including BBC iPlayer) has to be downloaded to view.

Youtube streams so it can be done.
BBC i-Player streams too on Virgin Media.
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