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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
It will take about 30% longer to watch programmes.
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Huh 
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer.
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.
Worse than watching 4:3 material stretched out to fill a 16:9 screen.
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Huh
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer. |
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Today, 15:21
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#768
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by Paul
Huh
Please clarify how watching a programme will take 30% longer. |
QuickView allows you to watch recorded material 30% quicker, so without it it will take 30% longer to watch a programme. I don't know how they do it, but it doesn't make people talk like a speeded up cartoon character!
Does anybody know if the VOD services have the option to speed up playback? I believe that the iPlayer might. If this is the case, it can't be a TiVo patented function, so could theoretically be added to the 360.
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Today, 15:21
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#769
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by ozsat
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.
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LOL, so by 30% "longer" he actually means watch it as normal. 
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by Paul
LOL, so by 30% "longer" he actually means watch it as normal. |
A 30 minute programme takes 30 minutes to watch in normal mode and 21 minutes in QuickView mode.
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Today, 15:38
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#771
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by gunner45
Agreed, but there are swings and roundabouts. The TV 360 has been getting the new apps and multi-room with Stream boxes as the V6 goes into managed decline, and I find the voice control of the TV 360 to be quite useful.
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V6 has multi-room, and each additional box also has the 1Tb HDD rather than being a slave/streamer-only.
Agreed re new apps, TV360 always has been about online-first & recording-second. V6 got the same Sky Sports multi-screen on the quiet, to be fair.
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Today, 16:33
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#772
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
A 30 minute programme takes 30 minutes to watch in normal mode and 21 minutes in QuickView mode.
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If you fast forward through the adverts, you can watch a half hour C5 programme in 15 minutes.
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Today, 17:33
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#773
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
QuickView allows you to watch recorded material 30% quicker, so without it it will take 30% longer to watch a programme. I don't know how they do it, but it doesn't make people talk like a speeded up cartoon character!
Does anybody know if the VOD services have the option to speed up playback? I believe that the iPlayer might. If this is the case, it can't be a TiVo patented function, so could theoretically be added to the 360.
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BBC iPlayer is an outlier in providing variable playback with its self‑contained HTML5 app, and we won't see this playback for other apps due to technical issues and/or rights from content owners.
The technical issues include Horizon 4's player, used by all other apps, which does not provide this capability.
The rights issues are about content owners who don't want their streams altered, and even if they did it's a big job to do this for the tiny percentage of those who want it.
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#774
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
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Originally Posted by ozsat
On the V6 you can speed up the playback and listen to it is a distorted mode.
Worse than watching 4:3 material stretched out to fill a 16:9 screen.
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Use subtitles. Lot quicker than 30% quicker. Over 2x speed.
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Today, 19:58
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#775
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Re: Virgin TV (2026)
or ..... just watch it as intended ... at normal speed.
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