Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV

[Telford240]

Originally Posted by braysoj1

same is it in widescreen

BBCHD looked superb on mine last night. I have found the samsung box I have just had fitted is a superior in picture to my old SA box for some reason, One show looked great on mine

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

You don't have to pay it you could just have 1 mix and get the FTA HD channels and you get recording functions.

Can you advise which mix you can get which only has FTA HD channels in?

Here's a page for you to use as reference:

http://www.sky.com/shop/high-definit...e/hd-channels/

I think that you have to pay the HD charge if you have any of the Sky mixes?

[pauldavies83]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

Can you advise which mix you can get which only has FTA HD channels in?

Here's a page for you to use as reference:

http://www.sky.com/shop/high-definit...e/hd-channels/

I think that you have to pay the HD charge if you have any of the Sky mixes?

From your link:

Luxury Life HD, ITV1 HD Channel 4 HD, FIVE HD and BBC HD are available without subscription. Channel 4 HD and Five HD require a valid viewing card. ITV1 HD is only available in England and Wales.

i.e. any mix will contain these channels, as they are free and only require a viewing card to ensure they are only available to UK viewers

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

Can you advise which mix you can get which only has FTA HD channels in?

Here's a page for you to use as reference:

http://www.sky.com/shop/high-definit...e/hd-channels/

I think that you have to pay the HD charge if you have any of the Sky mixes?

Sky are installing the Sky HD box as standard now I believe if you took say the Variety mix the recording functions are free and u get certain FTA HD channels like BBC HD , BBC1 HD not sure of others. When I cancelled sky completely my.box still got the FTA HD channels I just couldn't record them.

[windy]

Coming soon to virgin tv....... not coming soon to sky or anything to do with sky.

[RobboEdin]

Removed. No further Sky talk.

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by pauldavies83

No, it's not. It's still a PVR. A good PVR yes, but still a PVR.

And the software that makes it a good PVR is also not "brand new technology" - it's a refined version of what was so good in the original UK TiVo all those years ago. Refined quite a lot to move with the times, but not the earth shattering move it was from VHS to PVR

Firstly if you want the tivo box you are wanitng it either for tivo or 1tb storage even charge a extra fee for 1tb and since it is the most newest tivo they ahvea right to charge for it if yo dnt want ot pay then no one is forcing oyu they have ot mak aprofit on it

[pauldavies83]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

Firstly if you want the tivo box you are wanitng it either for tivo or 1tb storage even charge a extra fee for 1tb and since it is the most newest tivo they ahvea right to charge for it if yo dnt want ot pay then no one is forcing oyu they have ot mak aprofit on it

Maybe I'm not wanting it for either of these things? Maybe (as many others), I just want a PVR that doesn't:

Take an age to change channels
Require constant reboots
Can get hot enough to cook dinner on top
Misses the start/end of programs

They do have a right to charge what they want - its a business, I'm well aware of that. I never said they didn't have the right to do this.

I don't see why you have quoted my post - you haven't actually agreed or disagreed with anything i've said. You have just said, if you don't like it, don't pay for it. Doesn't really help the discussion. And if everyone took that view, where would be the need for innovation. Everyone would just sit on their laurels.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

Firstly if you want the tivo box you are wanitng it either for tivo or 1tb storage even charge a extra fee for 1tb and since it is the most newest tivo they ahvea right to charge for it if yo dnt want ot pay then no one is forcing oyu they have ot mak aprofit on it

Maybe you have shares in Virgi Media? That may account for 'encouraging' a monthly fee as well as a one off upfront payment

When the TV drive was launched, both sky and Virgin charged a monthly fee for PVR functionality. Both have now dropped that. Don't encorage these companies (by posting a willing aceptance of it) to go back to those days.

[Media Boy UK]

More info on Virgin/TiVo:

http://vmhd.blogspot.com/2010/11/lit...ivo-v-box.html

Interesting......

After launch we will see the integration of the new Spotify service and Facebook, along with the option to stream and back-up recorded content to LAN devices (laptop and other STB etc)

I wonder if that means it can be networked within your house?

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Interesting......

I wonder if that means it can be networked within your house?

Would be nice.

I have a WDTV Live box in the bedroom, I wonder if it (or other media streamers for that matter) could view a Tivo box as a IP device and stream content from that directly.

[Andrewcrawford23]

Originally Posted by pauldavies83

Maybe I'm not wanting it for either of these things? Maybe (as many others), I just want a PVR that doesn't:

Take an age to change channels
Require constant reboots
Can get hot enough to cook dinner on top
Misses the start/end of programs

They do have a right to charge what they want - its a business, I'm well aware of that. I never said they didn't have the right to do this.

I don't see why you have quoted my post - you haven't actually agreed or disagreed with anything i've said. You have just said, if you don't like it, don't pay for it. Doesn't really help the discussion. And if everyone took that view, where would be the need for innovation. Everyone would just sit on their laurels.

becuase oyu are saying since it ais a pvr it should be free liek teh v+ i am syaing it is different and sky also charge a premium for there premium pvr

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Originally Posted by passingbat

Maybe you have shares in Virgi Media? That may account for 'encouraging' a monthly fee as well as a one off upfront payment

When the TV drive was launched, both sky and Virgin charged a monthly fee for PVR functionality. Both have now dropped that. Don't encorage these companies (by posting a willing aceptance of it) to go back to those days.

sky charge for there 1tb pvr drive s why shouldnt virign? 1tb disk are expesive at least the pvr type ones

i never said it was right i am jsut givinga reaosn why it ill eb charged for

[trickytree]

Originally Posted by streetken

At the risk of going off topic in this thread

Well said!
This whole thread is pretty much off topic.
Why it can't be left open for discussion on the channels being added/removed and that's all we would still be on thread 1 and not thread 4.

Just create new threads for specific topics.
It's beoming increasingly difficult to search for things that may have been discussed before as everything is pretty much just held in this 1 thread!

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23

sky charge for there 1tb pvr drive s why shouldnt virign? 1tb disk are expesive at least the pvr type ones

No ones arguing about a one off charge -- it's the monthly subscription that no one wants.

Are you saying, on top of the box charge, Sky charge a monthly subscription for the 1TB box? It's news to me if they do.

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Originally Posted by trickytree

Well said!
This whole thread is pretty much off topic.
Why it can't be left open for discussion on the channels being added/removed and that's all we would still be on thread 1 and not thread !

Where does it mention TV channels in the coming soon bit of the title?

TIVO is coming soon, so unless the thread title is changed, surely, TIVO is within the thread title.