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Old 08-10-2018, 14:00   #2355
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
75 hours. How much timeshifting do you want to do???
It's not a lot, Spider. 75 hours equates to just over four series of 16 programmes each.

If they expected us to record so little, why did they increase the number of tuners on the V6?

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Well what we don’t know is what plans are longer term - in practice a variable bitrate will be deployed at some point averaging a lower bitrate and that could give efficiencies of 20-30% reducing the recording space. Streaming services use a lower bitrate than VM.
I do hope that things will improve longer term, but we are talking about the here and now. What are we supposed to do in the meantime? Such limited ability to record is counter to the way the Tivo and V6 have been promoted.

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
I'm not sure I had 25 E180 tapes back in the day. That said there was the glorious 'long play' to extend it.
I had about 50, mostly 4-hour tapes, and it was never enough.

I've got it about right now with two V6s and a video recorder which can record up to 500 hours in HD. With the additional 240 hours of HD recordings on the V6s, that just about satisfies my requirements.
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