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denphone · 26-03-2017, 10:41

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

The F1 UHD picture is absolutely superb but my recording for today's race used a whopping 85GB.

Good grief.

alwaysabear · 26-03-2017, 15:12

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

The F1 UHD picture is absolutely superb but my recording for today's race used a whopping 85GB.

Wow,

Perhaps cloud recording is going to have to be the way forward.

OLD BOY · 26-03-2017, 18:12

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Originally Posted by alwaysabear

Wow,

Perhaps cloud recording is going to have to be the way forward.

Almost undoubtedly! And given that the new V6s have only 1TB hard drives, that does rather indiccate that cloud recording is the way Virgin Media are going for UHD programmes.

I suppose the alternative to that is to put all UHD programmes on demand. If they do, hopefully they will leave it all on there for at least a year.

Ultimate.Conj · 27-03-2017, 10:34

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

The F1 UHD picture is absolutely superb but my recording for today's race used a whopping 85GB.

Ah man, I'm so jealous. My brother-in-law has been rubbing it in over the weekend about how good the UHD picture was too

The HD picture on Sky Sports F1 is good, but having seen what the UHD picture for the football is like on Sky, I can imagine how good the F1 looks.

I hope they can thrash out a deal soon

SnoopZ · 27-03-2017, 11:05

Does the V6 come with self install as i plan to move onto 1 of the new packages when they're available at the end of the month?

Basically i currently have the Tivo in 1 corner of the room and there is a splitter behind it which goes to the Hub3 in another corner of the room.

Ultimate.Conj · 27-03-2017, 11:23

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Does the V6 come with self install as i plan to move onto 1 of the new packages when they're available at the end of the month?

Basically i currently have the Tivo in 1 corner of the room and there is a splitter behind it which goes to the Hub3 in another corner of the room.

When trying to sort out my mum's package, I was told that the V6 does now comes with self-install.

spiderplant · 27-03-2017, 11:39

Self-install is now available for V6, but they may insist on you putting the Hub next to the V6 so they can be connected by Ethernet.

SnoopZ · 27-03-2017, 11:44

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Self-install is now available for V6, but they may insist on you putting the Hub next to the V6 so they can be connected by Ethernet.

If i have to do that then i will have to buy a really long Ethernet cable to connect the desktop PC which isn't that desirable.

Mad Max · 27-03-2017, 12:14

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Originally Posted by spiderplant

Self-install is now available for V6, but they may insist on you putting the Hub next to the V6 so they can be connected by Ethernet.

That's out of the question for me, and probably many others too, why didn't Virgin think of this before? It's just not practical for many people to have their SHUB next to their main TV, I would also need about a 10 metre cable to connect via Ethernet, so it looks like no V6 for me.

BenMcr · 27-03-2017, 12:16

They have thought of it, which is why the option of Powerline is there.

But the checks are done at order to ensure that people are fully aware of what needs to happen, and avoid situations where people say they can do a self install, but then end up not having the ability to connect the V6 to the home network.

Ultimate.Conj · 27-03-2017, 13:55

Both of my V6s are connected via Wi-Fi, no problems at all and no need for Ethernet cables.

OLD BOY · 27-03-2017, 14:13

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

That's out of the question for me, and probably many others too, why didn't Virgin think of this before? It's just not practical for many people to have their SHUB next to their main TV, I would also need about a 10 metre cable to connect via Ethernet, so it looks like no V6 for me.

That's a shame, Max, as I believe you would really benefit from having the V6 instead of the old Tivo.

Is self install really the only option for you? My two V6s work very well with my superhub in a different room, although I do understand that every case is different.

fenman35 · 27-03-2017, 14:41

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Originally Posted by Ultimate.Conj

Ah man, I'm so jealous. My brother-in-law has been rubbing it in over the weekend about how good the UHD picture was too

The HD picture on Sky Sports F1 is good, but having seen what the UHD picture for the football is like on Sky, I can imagine how good the F1 looks.

I hope they can thrash out a deal soon

Sky Q UHD did not record F1 qualifying for many hundreds of users, although the race recording was OK. UHD picture is not that much better on my TV than HD, and remember that only the race was in UHD , build up (grid walk etc) and post race was only available in HD

Mad Max · 27-03-2017, 17:41

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

They have thought of it, which is why the option of Powerline is there.

But the checks are done at order to ensure that people are fully aware of what needs to happen, and avoid situations where people say they can do a self install, but then end up not having the ability to connect the V6 to the home network.

Does VM supply those Ben, and if so are they free?

denphone · 27-03-2017, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Mad Max

Does VM supply those Ben, and if so are they free?

No they don't supply them but you can buy them.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...line+for+500Mb