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Originally Posted by japitts
One obvious point from your list is that one-touch-key-access between recordings & live TV, is not available on TV360. You can voice-control it, but if memory serves me correctly, it's about 6 or 7 keypresses.
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I took my temporarily reprogrammed Universal Remote round to our friend's house for testing, and can confirm that the "Ziggo" codeset does work perfectly on the 360 - including some extra hidden/extended IR codes which provide one-press access to Recordings, Help/Settings, and a few other things that the Virgin-supplied RF remote does not. That'll work fine for me.
I also tested the Series Link editing, and it's even more basic than I was expecting.
Once you've set up a Series Link for a programme from the current Guide you cannot even edit the channel that it is assigned to (e.g. change it from a BBC4 repeat to the main BBC1 broadcast). Nor (as far as I can tell) can you even see that a Series Link exists at all, or what channel it will record from, once that programme is no longer showing in the active upcoming list.
While I was at it, I tried to find the radio stations in the Guide (the ones normally in channels 900-960) and noticed they've completely screwed that up too. You can only see generic icons to listen live to any given radio station, with no programme information or schedule details, and no way to record, rewind, series link, etc. Another mess that I hadn't even considered would have been broken.
Our V6 currently has zero recorded shows (it's not been that way since it was first installed!) so it would be the perfect time to switch, but I think holding out to the bitter end would be a better option. I simply cannot see one single practical "feature" that is better on the 360 - unless you count a voice-command button or more convenient access to streaming services with non-skippable adverts (all of which I have on my TV anyway). Are there actually any pros to the thing at all, apart from it costing Virgin less in licencing fees?
Andre