Is anybody using one of these with Virgin? The Vulkano Lava was going for fifty quid recently so I picked one up to replace my ageing Slingbox Pro. I assume Versus, the company that markets them in the UK, must be discontinuing them and is clearing old stock.
The box says it's compatible with Virgin Media. However, it doesn't offer a remote control configuration for current Virgin boxes. The closest for my V-HD box was the NTL03BRCGB remote, but this doesn't include the colour buttons so it makes navigating on-demand rather painful. Someone has produced a config file for the Tivo at
http://vulkanocommunity.com/forum/re...media-tivo-uk/ but that gives odd results for some keys on the V-HD. You can also make the Vulkano learn commands from a remote but it fails on some of the V-HD remote's buttons. Does anybody have a more successful one?
For some unknown reason it fails to negotiate UPnP incoming ports with the Superhub, so it was necessary to allocate a static IP address and forward manually. Not had any problems with any other kit before.
Picture quality is significantly better than the Slingbox Pro, which I believe uses WM9 rather than H.264 (like the Vulkano and newer Slingboxes) and is also poor at using available bandwidth when the latency is high. Unlike the Slingbox it also lets you have multiple devices viewing on the local network.
One minor annoyance is that all the placeshifting products come out of the USA where composite / YPbPr analogue video is common, whereas in Europe we've always had SCARTs with RGB and it's not worth paying £60+ for a converter. As a result you have to settle for the slightly less good composite picture quality, though for remote viewing that probably doesn't matter quite so much.
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