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Old 21-12-2020, 11:03   #458
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Re: Virgin TV 360 users (Horizon)

If you look closely at your original V6 boxes it is actually in 2 halves with a thin line around the middle. The mini boxes are essentially just the top half only of the original V6 box with the bottom half removed which contains the hard drive. The idea being that the mini "slave" box receives its recordings and info from the main fully intact box with no need or use of its own hard drive. This system is called TV360 with the new Horizon software on new Humax manufactured boxes.
The alternative system, which is in trial only, is that you keep your original intact 2 or 3 Arris manufactured V6 boxes with the original hard drives on all your boxes still and the 360 Horizon firmware is downloaded to your boxes which are then reformatted replacing the Tivo software, but you retain all your hard drives. However, there is currently compatibility bugs in this trialled system at the moment between the Arris only boxes and the latest 360 (4.28 software) update version. This will be ironed out eventually.
The 360 / Horizon system that's in use in the rest of the European market by the other Liberty Global brands, including UPC, don't even use hard drives at all, as everything is recorded directly to the cloud instead. I guess this might be the ultimate goal here, although a very long way off yet.

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