V+Box Scientific Atlanta capacity

[superkev]

Hi
New to forum
After quite a few years as a fairly satisfied XXL customer and probably like lots of others with the comming of HD I am becoming frustrated by the limited amount of recording time built in to my SA V+box.
Ive looked through previos posts but can find the answers I need although im sure there there someware.
Q1 Is there anyway to get Virgin to either change the hard drive or swap the box for one with more capacity.
Q2 Are the SA and Panosonic boxes the same capacity.
Q3 After a discussion a couple of years ago Virgin reduced my monthly premium by around £12 if I paid a fee to purchse my box althogh they said nothing would change with regard to repairs etc. If I now own it presumably I could swap the Hard drive mysetf.
Q4. Im wonder if the Tivio box with its 1TB drive but no idea of cost
Thanks in advance.
Kev

[arcimedes]

Originally Posted by superkev

Hi
New to forum
After quite a few years as a fairly satisfied XXL customer and probably like lots of others with the comming of HD I am becoming frustrated by the limited amount of recording time built in to my SA V+box.
Ive looked through previos posts but can find the answers I need although im sure there there someware.
Q1 Is there anyway to get Virgin to either change the hard drive or swap the box for one with more capacity.
Q2 Are the SA and Panosonic boxes the same capacity.
Q3 After a discussion a couple of years ago Virgin reduced my monthly premium by around £12 if I paid a fee to purchse my box althogh they said nothing would change with regard to repairs etc. If I now own it presumably I could swap the Hard drive mysetf.
Q4. Im wonder if the Tivio box with its 1TB drive but no idea of cost
Thanks in advance.
Kev

Q1 No but see Q4

Q2 Yes

Q3 You do not own it what you did was pay a lump sum to avoid paying a subscription monthly for it. Therefore you cant change the hard drive.

Q4 Believed to be £199 plus £3 per month.

[MovedGoalPosts]

The V+ has about 80 hours of standard recording, which equates to only 20 hours or so of HD content. All V+ boxes are similar.

You cannot change the hard drive, and unfortunately (probably because of copyright stuff), you can't even add a USB or other network drive. All you can do is use the scart connection and archive recording to another recorder.

You didn't actually buy the V+ when you paid that fee. All you did was pay a lump sum up front to reduce your monthly subscriptions. I don't think that offer was particularly well worded and it does still create a lot of confusion. It is because you stil pay a monthly reduced subscription, even though that reduction may have been distorted over time, that the STB would be repaired by VM. As you don't own the V+ you can't change it's components.

I think many of us are looking at TiVo because of the increased storage capacity. But cost will be a major consideration. After all the upgrade fee alone is a fair wadje of cash.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by Rob

You cannot change the hard drive, and unfortunately (probably because of copyright stuff), you can't even add a USB or other network drive. All you can do is use the scart connection and archive recording to another recorder.

I think you mean SHOULDN'T as no matter what you 'paid' for it, it's not your equipment to alter and would be in breach of the Virginmedia Terms and Conditions to do so. But it IS entirely possible to change the HDD in a TVDrive/V+